How Inequality Runs in Families
Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility
Seiten
2016
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-3153-7 (ISBN)
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-3153-7 (ISBN)
In the UK, as in other rich countries, the `playing-field’ is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life raise fundamental questions of social justice and calls for a rethink of what equality of opportunity means.
In the UK, as in other rich countries, the `playing-field’ is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life – from the right to inherit income, to the reading of bedtime stories – raise fundamental questions of social justice. Taking fairness seriously, it argues, means rethinking what equality of opportunity means.
In the UK, as in other rich countries, the `playing-field’ is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life – from the right to inherit income, to the reading of bedtime stories – raise fundamental questions of social justice. Taking fairness seriously, it argues, means rethinking what equality of opportunity means.
Gideon Calder is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Social Policy at Swansea University. The author or editor of eight books, he is co-editor of the journal Ethics and Social Welfare, and of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children.
Introduction
The family and social justice
Social mobility and class fate
Unpacking equality of opportunity
Towards real equality of life chances?
Seven conclusions
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.10.2016 |
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| Verlagsort | Bristol |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4473-3153-2 / 1447331532 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4473-3153-7 / 9781447331537 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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