Understanding Inequalities

Stratification and Difference

Lucinda Platt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2019 | 2nd edition
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-2125-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people’s lives. Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability and migration status, it demonstrates how these play out in relation to education, health, poverty, neighbourhood and housing and how they cumulate across the life course. Richly illustrated with figures and concrete examples showing the distribution of life chances across social groups, the book demonstrates how people’s lives are structured by inequalities across multiple dimensions.

Comprehensive topical chapters are framed by an exploration of the meaning and interpretation of inequalities and a discussion highlighting the important intersections between them. With new chapters on disability and international migration, this updated edition continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike.

Autor

Lucinda Platt is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhalt

Figures, Tables and Boxes Figures

Tables

Boxes

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1 The importance of inequality

1.2 What do we mean by inequality?

1.3 Equality and inequality: concepts and definitions

1.4 Inequalities across groups

1.5 Coverage and key themes

Further reading

Part I

Chapter Two: Class

2.1 Concepts, definitions, measurement

2.2 The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) and the UK class distribution

2.3 Meritocracy and social mobility

Further reading

Chapter Three: Gender

3.1 Definitions, concepts and coverage

3.2 Women and labour market inequality

3.3 Gender and domestic work: women's double burden?

3.4 Explaining the gendered patterns of paid and unpaid work: socialization and preferences

3.5 Inequalities between women

Further reading

Chapter Four: Ethnicity

4.1 Ethnicity: definitions and measures

4.2 Ethnic groups in the UK: inequality and diversity

4.3 Explaining ethnic inequalities

Further reading

Chapter Five: International Migration

5.1 Defining migrants

5.2 Migrant diversity and inequalities

5.3 Explaining migrant inequality

Further reading

Chapter Six: Disability

6.1 Defining disability

6.2 Disability and inequalities

Further reading

Part II

Chapter Seven: Age and the Life Course

7.1 Inequalities and the life course

Further reading

Chapter Eight: Education

8.1 Educational attainment over time – and access to educational qualifications across different social origins

8.2 The role of educational institutions and their relationship to family resources and dominant cultures

8.3 Contemporary educational inequalities: gender and ethnicity

Further reading

Chapter Nine: Income, Wealth and Poverty

9.1 Income inequality

9.2 Wealth

9.3 Poverty

Further reading

Chapter Ten: Health

10.1 Drivers of inequalities in health

10.2 Health inequalities internationally and intra-nationally

10.3 Inequalities in health across social groups

Further reading

Chapter Eleven: Neighbourhood and Housing

11.1 Neighbourhood deprivation and neighbourhood effects

11.2 Housing

Further reading

Chapter Twelve: Conclusions: Inequality, Intersectionality and Diversity

12.1 A framework for understanding inequalities and stratification

12.2 Key themes

12.3 Looking forward

References

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2019
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 244 mm
• Gewicht: 794 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-5095-2125-9 / 1509521259
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2125-8 / 9781509521258
• Zustand: Neuware