DEEP INEQUALITY. Understanding the New Normal and How to Challenge It

Wysong, Earl and Robert Perrucci

ISBN 10: 1442266457 / ISBN 13: 9781442266452

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, Lanham, 2018

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1st edition, 2018. A Fine copy. 8vo., 215 pp., bound in publishers illustrated paper covered boards. Text appears unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEEP INEQUALITY. Understanding the New Normal and How to Challenge It
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, Lanham
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442266457
• ISBN 13: 9781442266452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: ch lib 5/26
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Science

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Synopsis

Forbes reports that the richest 1 percent of the world’s population owns nearly half the world’s wealth, and the gap between the richest and poorest of the world only continues to increase. Deep Inequality looks behind these stark statistics to understand not only wealth inequality but also rising disparities in other elements of life―from education to the media. The authors argue that inequality has become so pervasive that it is the new normal. When we do recognize troubling inequality, we look at individual or small-scale problems without understanding the broader structural issues that shape the economy, the global political system, and more. Only by understanding the structural forces at play can we recognize the deep divisions in our society and work for meaningful change. Deep Inequality explains the changing landscape of inequality to help readers see society in a new way.

About the Author

EARL WYSONG is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University at Kokomo. His earlier research has appeared in Policy Studies Review and, with Robert Perrucci, in the edited collection Research and Politics in Society.