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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... Urban Boundaries 4. The Aftermath of Affluence 5. New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour 6. Poverty, Social Exclusion and the Welfare State 7. New Work and New Workers 8. Class Identity Bibliography Notes Index vii 11 36 57 76 100 ...
... urban studies journal that amounted to a personal volte-face, as well as a challenge to the dominant class paradigm: 'class as a concept is ceasing to do any useful work for sociology' (1989: 710). For Pahl, the old class categories ...
... urban studies (Savage et al., 2003). Globalization – however real or imagined its impacts – has undermined the perceived national experience of systems of class inequality and so led to its increasing marginalization in sociological ...
... urban underclass. Chapter 6 focuses on the notion that, despite increased aggregate affluence, advanced capitalist societies during the last 30 years have increasingly generated high and sustained levels of poverty and also what has ...
... urban sociology would be concerned with the mutual impact of two analytically separate entities, capitalism and modernity.' They draw on the work of Berman for whom modernity was an essentially dualistic concept, which simultaneously ...
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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