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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... women and class' debate over the role of female employment and whether the household or individual constitutes the best 'unit' for measuring occupational class (H Roberts, 1993). Summaries of these debates and alternative class schemes ...
... women; Ehrenreich and Hochschild (2003) estimate that women make up half of the 120 million legal and illegal migrants. Feminists have drawn attention to the 'feminization of migration' in Europe whereby an increased number of migrants ...
... women's magazines are in this sense 'classless' where the older kind belonged to particular social groups. Mass publications cannot reach an audience of the size they need by cutting across class boundaries. No doubt many of them have a ...
... women far less likely to selfidentify as working class or vote for the Labour Party. Ironically, as Hart argues, Zweig (1961), the forgotten person in the embourgeoisement debate, was far more attuned to the potential significance of ...
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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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