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 – in this sense he can be regarded as a radical who sees society , at least in princi- ple , now rising above a ' one size fits all ' approach to issues of rights , child rearing , the emotions etc. In principle , we now have the ...
... tion of New Labour to ' big business ' , because the failure to do so would , it was argued , mean that they missed out on the ' only game in town ' . A minor , but nonetheless sig- nificant , example of this was the decision by ...
... tion (for example BSE). New means have to be devised for making appropriate, and often individual, 'risk assessments' of social behaviour. The state is no longer trusted to do this; either because it is committed to a particular model ...
... tion from the standpoint of contemporary activists . Giddens ' The Third Way and its Critics ( 2000 ) is a clear manifesto for a ' transformationalist ' perspective on the con- temporary globalization debate . There are a number of ...
... tion . The language of class saturated discussions on how industrial society is strati- fied and that largely involved the study of a male , white , manual working class . For this reason , industrial sociology lay , for many years , at ...
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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Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City Robert Imrie,Loretta Lees,Mike Raco No preview available - 2009 |