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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... tion to ' other ' aspects of social inequality and difference , notably gender , ethnicity and age ( Bradley , 1996 ) , and the role played by cultural factors as seen in the ' cultural turn ' ( Devine and Savage , 2005 ) . By way of ...
... tion of exchange ' ( 1989 : 229 ) . In this process , the rapidity of time annihilates the barriers of space . As Harvey puts it , ' innovations dedicated to the removal of spatial barriers ... have been of immense significance in the ...
... tion , which marked a ' new round ' of time - space compression . Source : http://it.stlawu.edu/~pomo/mike/timespac.html ( accessed 22 February 2005 ) Both terms – postmodernity and globalization – represent not just the nature of the ...
... tion of the Enlightenment project . Postmodernism Postmodernism cannot be seen to be simply all that modernism is not , nor can postmodernity be seen as the antithesis to modernity . However , postmodernism is a reaction to the ...
... tion that we gain our best understanding of something when it – and it alone – is present to our consciousness. He argued that understanding something requires a grasp of the ways in which it relates to other things, and a capacity to ...
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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