Rethinking Social Inequality - David Robbins, Lesley Caldwell, Graham Day, Karen Jones & Hilary Rose

Rethinking Social Inequality

By David Robbins, Lesley Caldwell, Graham Day, Karen Jones & Hilary Rose

  • Release Date: 2018-05-11
  • Genre: Sociology

Description

Originally published in 1982, Rethinking Social Inequality is a collection of essays looking at the breadth of contemporary work in social inequality. The book focuses on inequality as a central project of sociological enquiry, and is unified by the overarching rejection of a distributional notion of inequality, in the place of a relational one. The object of the study is not the deprived social group, but the unequal social relations, which is manifested in a variety of forms. The themes addressed in this collection indicate a shift in the areas of study concerned with social inequality, rejecting class-based inequality in with that of race, gender and age.

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