Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour
New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour
- Introduction
- World cities
- Los Angeles and the ‘LA School’
- Social polarization
- Centrification and the urban-seeking middle classes
- The ghetto and the urban underclass
- Methodology and urban social polarization
- Conclusion
Introduction
We have seen how explanations of social stratification have traditionally been rooted in employment relations. In Chapters 3 and 4, however, we introduced the idea that space and place play an increasingly important role in understanding how contemporary society is stratified and this idea is developed further in this chapter. Sociologists have only relatively recently begun to heed the assertions of human geographers that ‘space matters’, as hinted in the discussion on restructuring at the end of Chapter 4 (Massey, 1984; Soja, 1989). In recent years, these ideas have been taken ...
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