Full Description
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 demonstrates 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 international migration, this updated 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.
Contents
Figures, Tables and Boxes Figures
Tables
Boxes
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 The importance of inequality
1.2 What do we mean by inequality?
1.3 Equality and inequality: concepts and definitions
1.4 Inequalities across groups
1.5 Coverage and key themes
Further reading
Part I
Chapter Two: Class
2.1 Concepts, definitions, measurement
2.2 The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) and the UK class distribution
2.3 Meritocracy and social mobility
Further reading
Chapter Three: Gender
3.1 Definitions, concepts and coverage
3.2 Women and labour market inequality
3.3 Gender and domestic work: women's double burden?
3.4 Explaining the gendered patterns of paid and unpaid work: socialization and preferences
3.5 Inequalities between women
Further reading
Chapter Four: Ethnicity
4.1 Ethnicity: definitions and measures
4.2 Ethnic groups in the UK: inequality and diversity
4.3 Explaining ethnic inequalities
Further reading
Chapter Five: International Migration
5.1 Defining migrants
5.2 Migrant diversity and inequalities
5.3 Explaining migrant inequality
Further reading
Chapter Six: Disability
6.1 Defining disability
6.2 Disability and inequalities
Further reading
Part II
Chapter Seven: Age and the Life Course
7.1 Inequalities and the life course
Further reading
Chapter Eight: Education
8.1 Educational attainment over time - and access to educational qualifications across different social origins
8.2 The role of educational institutions and their relationship to family resources and dominant cultures
8.3 Contemporary educational inequalities: gender and ethnicity
Further reading
Chapter Nine: Income, Wealth and Poverty
9.1 Income inequality
9.2 Wealth
9.3 Poverty
Further reading
Chapter Ten: Health
10.1 Drivers of inequalities in health
10.2 Health inequalities internationally and intra-nationally
10.3 Inequalities in health across social groups
Further reading
Chapter Eleven: Neighbourhood and Housing
11.1 Neighbourhood deprivation and neighbourhood effects
11.2 Housing
Further reading
Chapter Twelve: Conclusions: Inequality, Intersectionality and Diversity
12.1 A framework for understanding inequalities and stratification
12.2 Key themes
12.3 Looking forward
References
Index
