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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... theory, social structure and methods, and second within theory between Marx, Weber and Durkheim. The third trinity was the 'holy grail' of sociological analysis – finding the synthesis between structure and action. We believe that these ...
... theory and Marxism. Bottero (2005) is an excellent account of the debates over class that largely complements our own, but coming at it very much from the perspective of the 'Cambridge School'; she places more emphasis than we have on ...
... theory; differing conceptions of human nature and our place in the universe; and profound economic, social and political changes. The second reason is that the Enlightenment period left a rich legacy of ideas and problems. To study the ...
... and regionally based forms of identity and, it is claimed, a decline in the importance of the nation Work and stratification in post-war Britain Class theory in British. •25• ••• Modernity, Postmodernity and Globalization •••
... theory nor is it easily categorized into more political right–left differences. Indeed, they point out that analysts who share broadly common starting points – whether neo-liberal or Marxist – often come to completely different ...
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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