Understanding inequalities : Stratification and difference / Lucinda Platt
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2019
Edition
Second edition
Descript
xi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"-- Provided by publisher
"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"-- Provided by publisher
CONTENT
Introduction -- Part 1 : Class -- Gender -- Ethnicity -- International migration -- Disability -- Part 2 : Age and the life course -- Education -- Income, wealth and poverty -- Health -- Neighbourhood and housing -- Conclusions: Inequality, Intersectionality and Diversity
