Inequality in Economics and Sociology (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives
Redaktion: Antonelli, Gilberto; Rehbein, Boike

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Organised thematically, this volume brings international scholars together to offer students and researchers a cutting edge overview of the core topics of inequality research. Chapters cover the theoretical traditions in economics and sociology; the global and national structures of inequality in the contemporary world; the main dimensions of inequality (including gender, race, caste, migration, education and poverty); and research methodology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317193142
• Artikelnr.: 48799967

Autorenporträt

Gilberto Antonelli is Full Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna, Italy, and Chairman of the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC). Boike Rehbein is Professor of the Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction
Gilberto Antonelli and Boike Rehbein
PART I Theoretical background
1. Theoretical approaches to inequality in economics and sociology
Giovanni Guidetti and Boike Rehbein
PART II Inequality and globalization
2. Inequality in income and wealth distribution, globalization and models
of capitalism
Gilberto Antonelli
3. Globalization, capitalism and inequality
Boike Rehbein and Jessé Souza
4. Lower classes
Jessé Souza
5. Middle classes
Florian Stoll
6. Elites
Michael Hartmann
PART III Dimensions of inequality
7. Gender and inequality
Emanuelle Silva
8. Inequality and migration
Anja Weiß
9. Inequality, ethnicity and caste
Surinder S. Jodhka
10. Inequality and race
Gerhard Maré
11. Rural-urban inequality and poverty
Anirudh Krishna
12. Inequality, education and skills
Michael Kinville and Giulio Pedrini
13. Innovation and inequality
Riccardo Leoncini
PART IV Methodology
14. Quantitative methods for inequality measurement
Pinuccia Calia
15. Qualitative approaches to inequality
Christian Schneickert
Index