Summary
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Moving beyond the traditional dichotomies of social theory, Understanding Social Inequality brings the study of social stratification and inequality into the 21st century. Starting with the widely agreed "fact" that the world is becoming more unequal, this book pulls together the "identity of displacement" in sociology and the "spaces of flow" of geography to show how place has become an increasingly important focus for understanding new trends in social inequality. The book charts a path through current debates and issues that studies of social inequality cannot afford to ignore. Accessible and engagingly written, this book stimulates the "sociological imagination", prompting readers to link personal experiences and public issues.
Modernity, Postmodernity and Globalization
Modernity, Postmodernity and Globalization
- Introduction: the end of certainty
- The Enlightenment ‘project’, modernity and postmodernity
- Globalization
- Models of globalization
- Globalization and migration
- Conclusion
Introduction: The End of Certainty
In this chapter, we focus on two linked discussions that, over the past quarter of a century, have unsettled the ways that we had come to understand the nature of social stratification in advanced industrial nations. The discussions are those about the nature of postmodernity and of globalization, terms that have been highly contested both from within and outside the academic sociological community. What was once clearly in the academic domain of sociology – the nature of social stratification – has become generalized across the broad fields of the humanities and social sciences as well as a more public intellectual milieu.
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