Global Handbook of Inequality

Surinder S. Jodhka, Boike Rehbein (Herausgeber)

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XXVII, 1894 Seiten | Ausstattung: Hardcover

2024
Springer International Publishing
978-3-031-32151-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality. It provides comprehensive overviews of the main theoretical traditions, concepts, dimensions, methodologies and contemporary debates around inequality as well as outlines of the situation of inequality in the world regions. Each entry covers the most relevant literature on the respective topic and gives an introduction to the key discussions. This authoritative reference work includes contributions from established and upcoming scholars based all over the world, and is truly global in perspective. It serves as a first introduction to the study of a particular field or issue related to inequality. The distinctive aspect of this handbook is its emphasis on the lived realities of inequality, its relational and cultural aspects, as well as the economic and quantitative aspects. 

This is a must-read reference volume for students, researchers and professionals interested in this topic across the spectrum of the social sciences.   

Autor

Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Nehru University, India. He received his MA in sociology from Pune University and PhD in sociology from Panjab University, Chandigarh (India). Before joining Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2006 he taught at the University of Hyderabad and Panjab University. He researches on different dimensions of social inequalities – old and new – and the processes of their reproduction. The empirical foci of his work have been the dynamics of caste; studies of agrarian social change and contemporary rural India; and the political sociology of community identities. He has authored/edited 17 books and has published nearly 100 research papers. He is among the first recipients of the Indian Council of Social Science Research-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, for the year 2012. Boike Rehbein is Professor of Society and Transformation at Humboldt University Berlin. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University of Freiburg, and was assistant and associate professor of sociology at the University of Freiburg. He has been full professor at Humboldt University since 2009. His areas of specialization are social inequality, social theory, globalization and Southeast Asia. He has published more than 25 books, most of them related to inequality, as well as more than 100 articles. Some of books have been translated into up to four foreign languages.

Inhalt

I. Thinkers and theories.- II. Methods.- III. Dimensions.- IV. Concepts, debates and processes.- VI. World regions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2024
• Zusatzinfo: XXVII, 1894 p. 59 illus., 46 illus. in color. In 2 volumes, not available separately.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: caste inequality • Colonialism • cultural discrimination • economic disparities • Measuring Inequality • Race and inequality • Regional Disparities • religious persecution • Social Exclusion • Social Inequality • social movements against inequality • Social Stratification • Spatial inequalities • theories of inequality
• ISBN-10: 3-031-32151-0 / 3031321510
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-32151-1 / 9783031321511
• Zustand: Neuware