Originally published in 1982, Rethinking Social Inequality is a collection of essays looking at the breadth of contemporary work in social inequality. The book focuses on inequality as a central project of sociological enquiry, and is unified by the overarching rejection of a distributional notion of inequality, in the place of a relational one. The object of the study is not the deprived social group, but the unequal social relations, which is manifested in a variety of forms. The themes addressed in this collection indicate a shift in the areas of study concerned with social inequality, rejecting class-based inequality in with that of race, gender and age.
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1 Introduction: Rethinking Inequality |
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2 White Sociology, Black Struggle |
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3 Female Manual Workers, Fatalism and the Reinforcement of Inequalities |
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4 The Generation Game: Playing by the Rules |
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5 Aging and Inequality: Consumer Culture and the New Middle Age |
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6 Egalitarianism and Social Inequality in Scotland |
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7 Inequality of Access to Political Television: The Case of the General Election of 1979 |
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8 Classes, Class Fractions and Monetarism |
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9 Moral Economy and the Welfare State |
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10 Towards a Celebration of Difference(s): Notes for a sociology of a possible everyday future |
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David Robbins, Lesley Caldwell, Graham Day, Karen Jones, Hilary Rose
