Screen LibraryThe Blackwell companion to social inequalities
"The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities" is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class and gender sexuality, age, and nationality. The volume highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientati...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to sociology
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996973 |
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"The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities" is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class and gender sexuality, age, and nationality. The volume highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities. An international group of leading scholars gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities. They also identify likely new areas of research. An editorial introduction and suggestions for further reading round out the collection, making this a one-of-a-kind reference to the field. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 612 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1405152060 9781405152068 9780631231547 0631231544 9781405166713 1405166711 9780470996973 0470996978 |
| Index Number: | HM821 |
| CLC: | C912 |
| Contents: | Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. CONCEPTUALIZING INEQUALITIES -- 1. Historical Perspectives on Inequality -- 2. Social Exclusion: New Inequality Paradigm for the Era of Globalization? -- 3. Unequal Nations: Race, Citizen, and the Politics of Recognition -- 4. Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World -- 5. Domination, Resistance, and Subjectivity -- PART II. EPISTEMOLOGY, METHOD, AND INEQUALITY -- 6. Conceptualizing a Critical Race Theory in Sociology -- 7. Environmental Racism: Inequality in a Toxic World -- 8. Labor-market Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class -- 9. What Counts? Definition, Measurement, and Legitimacy in Studies of Homelessness -- PART III. FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND EDUCATION -- 10. Children and Inequality -- 11. Parenting and Inequality -- 12. Migrant Networks: a Summary and Critique of Relational Approaches to International Migration -- 13. Race, Education, and Inequality -- PART IV. POLICY RESPONSES TO INEQUALITIES -- 14. Beyond Dependency: Welfare States and the Configuration of Social Inequality -- 15. Inequalities, Crime, and Citizenship -- 16. Disability and Social Inequalities -- 17. The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare -- 18. The Nervous Gaze: Backpacking in Africa -- 19. Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality, Population Politics, and NGOs -- PART V. MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, AND INEQUALITIES -- 20. Selling Images of Inequality: Hollywood Cinema and the Reproduction of Racial and Gender Stereotypes -- 21. In the Shadow of Cultural Imperialism: Television and National Identities in the Era of Globalization -- 22. Minding the Cyber-gap: the Internet and Social Inequality -- 23. New Global Technologies of Power: Cybernetic Capitalism and Social Inequality. |