Changing Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Perspective (Comparative Charting of Social Change) (Volume 10) - Hardcover

Lemel, Yannick; Noll, Heinz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773522034 ISBN 13: 9780773522039

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Changing Structures of Inequality examines these questions in a new comparative perspective, covering five national societies - Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. The authors offer a deed analysis of country-specific research traditions in the fields of class analysis and social stratification, revealing important conceptual differences which have consequences for the diagnoses. They present the results of substantial compa-rative studies on different aspects of inequality in developed societies - the inequality of income and wealth; educational inequalities; status crystallization; migration and inequality; gender inequality and the structuring effect of social class - highlighting similarities as well as substantial differences between the societies under examination. The authors offer a nuanced con-clusion that puts in perspective the different topics of this contemporary debate. Developed societies are now characterized by more dynamic and pluralistic structures of inequalities, where classes have lost some of their previous importance, but to some extent still have a place. Contributors include Howard M. Bahr, Mathias Bös, Gary Caldwell, Salustiano del Campo, Theodore Caplow, Louis Chauvel, Michel Forse, Wolfgang Glatzer, Richard Huaser, Paul W. Kingston, Denise Lemieux, Laura Maratou-Alipranti, and Marion Mohle.

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About the Author

Lemel is a sociologist and director of the Laboratoire de sociologic quantitative, INSEE, Paris.

Noll is a sociologist and research director of the Zuma, Mannheim.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773522034
• ISBN 13: 9780773522039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 440