ISBN:
9780415281799
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (292 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Stratification
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book offers an exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, looking at how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Stratification and social distance; 2 Images of inequality; 3 Founding ideas; 4 Sins of the fathers; 5 Name, rank and number; 6 Racialised relations; 7 A woman's place; 8 Culture and anarchy; 9 Social space; 10 Someone like me; 11 Hierarchy makes you sick; 12 Movements in space; 13 'Us' and 'them'; 14 Reproducing hierarchy; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
