A Sense of Inequality
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2019
262 pages
979-8-8818-5485-0 (ISBN)
Description
We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes people's everyday understandings of inequality? How are understandings of inequality located in everyday concerns, moral values and principles of justice?
This book considers what provokes everyday 'views' or framings of inequality. It examines how different approaches can help us understand this process, drawing on a range of literatures, including social attitudes and perceptions research, class identities and neoliberalism, theories of the psychosocial, affect and the abject, social constructionism, social movements research, and pragmatism. The book examines how troubling social situations come to be regarded as inequalities, explores how they come to be understood as 'class', 'gender', 'racial' or other kinds of inequality, and considers how such inequalities come to be seen as susceptible to intervention and change.
This book considers what provokes everyday 'views' or framings of inequality. It examines how different approaches can help us understand this process, drawing on a range of literatures, including social attitudes and perceptions research, class identities and neoliberalism, theories of the psychosocial, affect and the abject, social constructionism, social movements research, and pragmatism. The book examines how troubling social situations come to be regarded as inequalities, explores how they come to be understood as 'class', 'gender', 'racial' or other kinds of inequality, and considers how such inequalities come to be seen as susceptible to intervention and change.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
1 tables;
ISBN-13
979-8-8818-5485-0 (9798881854850)
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Wendy Bottero
A Sense of Inequality
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11/2019
Rowman & Littlefield International
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Wendy Bottero is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.
Content
Chapter 1: Restricted Visions?
Chapter 2: Attitudes to Inequality
Chapter 3: Misrecognising Inequality
Chapter 4: Affective Inequality
Chapter 5: Protesting Inequality
Chapter 6: Resisting Inequality
Chapter 7: Making Sense of Inequality
Chapter 8: Conclusion -Analysing Inequality
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Attitudes to Inequality
Chapter 3: Misrecognising Inequality
Chapter 4: Affective Inequality
Chapter 5: Protesting Inequality
Chapter 6: Resisting Inequality
Chapter 7: Making Sense of Inequality
Chapter 8: Conclusion -Analysing Inequality
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