Understanding Inequality Poverty and Wealth : Policies and Prospects

Edité par Bookwell, New Delhi, 2010

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Contents Acknowledgements. Glossary. 1. Introduction/Tess Ridge and Sharon Wright. I. Key concepts and issues 2. Wealth/Karen Rowlingson. 3. Poverty and social exclusion/Pete Alcock. 4. Explaining poverty social exclusion and inequality towards a structural approach/Gerry Mooney. II. People and place divisions of poverty and wealth 5. Global inequality poverty and wealth/Nicola Yeates. 6. Spatial divisions of poverty and wealth/Danny Dorling and Dimitris Ballas. 7. Gender poverty and wealth/Gill Scott. 8. The intersection of ethnicity poverty and wealth/Akwugo Emejulu. 9. Children's and young people's experiences of poverty and social exclusion/Petra Holscher. 10. Poverty and financial inequality in later life/Jay Ginn. 11. Health and disability/Mary Shaw Ben Wheeler Richard Mitchell and Danny Dorling. III. The role of the state 12. State approaches to wealth/Michael Orton. 13. State approaches to poverty and social exclusion/Tess Ridge and Sharon Wright. IV. Prospects 14. Conclusion/Tess Ridge and Sharon Wright. Index. At a time when the divide between the wealthy and the disadvantaged is widening this major new textbook provides students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth rather than as separate from it. Raising fundamental questions about the organisation of society social structures and relationships and social justice the book is split into four main sections exploring key concepts and issues people and place (poverty and wealth across different groups and situations) the role of the state and prospects for the future. Features The only textbook to focus on the links between wealth and poverty. An edited collection of chapters specially written by a distinguished panel of contributors including Pete Alcock Danny Dorling Mary Shaw Gill Scott and Jay Ginn. Designed with the needs of students in mind and includes useful chapter summaries illustrative boxes and diagrams and pointers to relevant websites and other sources of further information. It will be an essential textbook for level 1/2 undergraduate students studying social policy either as a main subject or as part of their course. It will be a core text for level 3/4 specialist modules in this field. 334 pp.

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Titre
Understanding Inequality Poverty and Wealth : Policies and Prospects
Auteur
Tess Ridge and Sharon Wright
Éditeur
Bookwell, New Delhi
Année de publication
2010
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Hardbound
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