Understanding Inequalities: Stratification and Difference - Couverture rigide

Platt, Lucinda

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 074564175X ISBN 13 : 9780745641751

Editeur : Polity Press, 2011

Synopsis

Bringing together the latest empirical evidence with a discussion of sociological debates surrounding inequality, this book explores a broad range of inequalities in people′s lives. As well as treating the core sociological topics of class, ethnicity and gender, it examines how inequalities are experienced across a variety of settings, including education, health, geography and housing, income and wealth, and how they cumulate across the life course. Richly illustrated with graphs and figures showing the extent of inequalities and the differences between social groups, the book demonstrates how people′s lives are structured by inequalities across multiple dimensions of their lives.

Throughout, the text pays attention to how we know what we know about inequality: what is measured and how, what is left out of the picture, and what implications this has for our understanding of specific inequalities. Importantly, the book also highlights the intersections between different sources or forms of inequality, and the ways that bringing an intersectional lens to bear on topics can highlight and challenge the assumptions about how they operate.

Designed for second–year undergraduates and above, this book provides an engaging overview of social stratification and challenges readers to think about how inequalities are embedded across society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lucinda Platt is professor of sociology at the Institute of Education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074564175X
• ISBN 13: 9780745641751
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible