ISBN:
0761963707
,
0761963693
,
9780761963707
,
9780761963691
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 222 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Social Inequality
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Social stratification
;
Equality
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Soziale Schichtung
Abstract:
'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. 'With theoretical ease and the use of telling exam
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Modernity, Postmodernity and Globalization; Chapter 3 - The Collar Line and Urban Boundaries; Chapter 4 - The Aftermath of Affluence; Chapter 5 - New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour; Chapter 6 - Poverty, Social Exclusion and the Welfare State; Chapter 7 - New Work and New Workers; Chapter 8 - Class Identity; Bibliography; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-210) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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