Understanding inequalities
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge Polity 2019Edition: 2Description: xi, 355 p. illustrationsISBN: 9781509521258; 9781509521265Subject(s): Equality | Social stratification | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social ClassesDDC classification: 305.0941 Summary: "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 shows 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 on international migration, this new edition continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike"--Summary: "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. It continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike"--Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | 305.0941 PLA/U (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 50674 |
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305 MAR Marginalities in India : themes and perspectives | 305 RED Reducing inequalities: a sustainable development challenge | 305.01 INE Inequality: classic readings in race class and gender | 305.0941 PLA/U Understanding inequalities | 305.095 4 AHU/S Society in india | 305.095 4 AHU/S Society in india | 305.095 4 BAJ/S Social and economic profile of India |
Revised edition of the author's Understanding inequalities, 2011.
"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 shows 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 on international migration, this new edition continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike"--
"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. It continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike"--
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