Platt, Lucinda 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8251-6400
(2011)
Understanding inequalities: stratification and difference.
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK.
ISBN 9780745641768
Abstract
Bringing together the latest empirical evidence with a discussion of sociological debates surrounding inequality, this book explores a broad range of inequalities in people's lives. As well as treating the core sociological topics of class, ethnicity and gender, it examines how inequalities are experienced across a variety of settings, including education, health, geography and housing, income and wealth, and how they cumulate across the life course. Richly illustrated with graphs and figures showing the extent of inequalities and the differences between social groups, the book demonstrates how people's lives are structured by inequalities across multiple dimensions of their lives. Throughout, the text pays attention to how we know what we know about inequality: what is measured and how, what is left out of the picture, and what implications this has for our understanding of specific inequalities. Importantly, the book also highlights the intersections between different sources or forms of inequality, and the ways that bringing an intersectional lens to bear on topics can highlight and challenge the assumptions about how they operate. Designed for second-year undergraduates and above, this book provides an engaging overview of social stratification and challenges readers to think about how inequalities are embedded across society.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Official URL: | http://www.polity.co.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 Polity |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| JEL classification: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare and Poverty > I31 - General Welfare; Basic Needs; Living Standards; Quality of Life; Happiness |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2014 09:26 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 14:40 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55437 |
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