Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-11662-0 (ISBN)
The contributions in this book highlight,contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are thevarious cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recentdecades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written byauthors from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions, thesecontributions provide a rich account of inequality within contemporary society.The role of the state, the media and the market in exacerbating and alleviatingpatterns of equality are all accessed alongside analysis of changing patternsof exclusion and hierarchy.
Amanda Machin, PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Karl Mannheim Chair for Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. Nico Stehr, PhD, FRSC, is Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen.
Modernsociety and social inequality.- The sources of social inequality.- Theconsequences of inequality.- Capitalism and Inequality.- Culture and Inequality.- Governing and Inequality.- Media and Inequality.- Global and Local Inequality.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.06.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | zu |
| Zusatzinfo | VII, 427 p. 31 illus., 3 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Wiesbaden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 580 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Schlagworte | Armut • Armut / Arme • Geschlechterungleichheit • globale Ungleichheit • Inklusion • Kapitilismus • Migration • Migration / Migrant • Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology • Politische Steuerung • Social Sciences • Social Structure, Social Inequality • Sociology of Culture • Soziale Gleichheit • Soziale Ungleichheit |
| ISBN-10 | 3-658-11662-5 / 3658116625 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-658-11662-0 / 9783658116620 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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