Understanding Social Inequality"This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive perspectives on a set of issues that are - despite the claims of some influential commentators - still central to the sociological enterprise and, indeed to political life." - Roger Burrows, University of York "A clear and compelling analysis of the dynamics of social and spatial inequality in an era of globalisation. This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in sociology, human geography and the social sciences more generally." With the declining attention paid to social class in sociology, how can we analyze continuing and pervasive socio-economic inequality? What is the impact of recent developments in sociology on how we should understand disadvantage? Moving beyond the traditional dichotomies of social theory, this book brings the study of social stratification and inequality into the 21st century. Starting with the widely agreed ′fact′ that the world is becoming more unequal, this book brings together the ′identity of displacement′ in sociology and the ′spaces of flow′ of geography to show how place has become an increasingly important focus for understanding new trends in social inquality. |
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... sociologists have claimed that the study of class is no longer relevant to understanding contemporary society at all, if it ever was (Pakulski and Waters, 1996). Why do they think this? The main answer is the argument that society has ...
... sociologists and human geographers which has been particularly fruitful in the field of urban studies (Savage et al., 2003). Globalization – however real or imagined its impacts – has undermined the perceived national experience of ...
... Sociologists have, they suggest, taken a 'wrong turn' here because the behaviour which Wirth identified as being primarily urban (such as disorganization and the predominance of segmented and secondary relationships), was in truth an ...
... the ongoing work of difference. Source: Obituary to Jacques Derrida, The Guardian, 11 October 2004 Globalization When the unapologetically Blairite sociologist Anthony Giddens was invited. •26• ••• Understanding Social Inequality •••
Tim Butler, Paul Watt. Globalization When the unapologetically Blairite sociologist Anthony Giddens was invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures in 1999, he chose as his theme globalization (Runaway World) and delivered the lectures from ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 The Aftermath of Affluence | 57 |
Chapter 5 New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour | 76 |
Chapter 6 Poverty Social Exclusion and the Welfare State | 100 |
Chapter 7 New Work and New Workers | 135 |
Chapter 8 Class Identity | 165 |
Bibliography | 189 |
Notes | 211 |
Index | 215 |
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