Social Inequality in Australia

2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-552541-0
Verlag: OUP Australia & New Zealand

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

Social Inequality in Australia: Discourses, Realities and Futures provides detailed coverage of the key dimensions of the nature and extent of inequality and difference in Australian society. It examines how social inequality affects different social groups, explores the role of culture in the social reproduction of hierarchy and difference, and incorporates discussion about the effects of globalisation on inequality and difference in Australia. The second edition tests arguments about the nature of inequality against empirical evidence, and incorporates topical case studies in each chapter provide contemporary examples to aid student understanding of theory and perspectives in context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habibis, Daphne

Walter, Maggie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part One: Theorising Social Inequality

- 1: Social Inequality: A Short History of an Idea

- 2: Classical Theories of Inequalities and Their Modern Developments

- 3: Transformations of Class Theory: From Class to Identity

- Part Two: Spheres of Inequality

- 4: The Material Sphere

- 5: The Political Sphere

- 6: The Cultural Sphere

- Part Three: Sites of Inequality

- 7: Knowledge, Education and Technology

- 8: The Labour Market

- 9: The Family

- 10: Place and Space: Locational Inequality

- 11: The Body

- Part Four: Conclusion

- 12: Transforming Inequality

Über Autor(innen)

Daphne Habibis - Associate Professor, School of Sociology, University of Tasmania

Maggie Walter - Professor, School of Sociology, University of Tasmania