Lucinda Platt (University of Essex)

Understanding Inequalities

Stratification and Difference

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 ofcontemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity / Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A509521260
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781509521265
• ISBN-10: 1509521267
• Artikelnr.: 53489037

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

'Platt's brilliant razor-sharp forensic analysis not only reveals the shocking disparities between rich and poor but uniquely shows how social class and the inequalities of ethnicity, gender, migration and disability intersect and affect people's intimate and lived lives.'
Heidi Mirza, Emeritus Professor, UCL Institute of Education

'With inequality now at the forefront of political debate, this outstanding book provides a clear, comprehensive and nuanced overview of what is known about the extent and nature of inequalities on key dimensions and the linkages across them.'
Brian Nolan, University of Oxford