Against the Odds?: Social Class and Social Justice in Industrial Societies

ISBN-13: 9780198292401 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 280 str.

Gordon Marshall; Adam Swift; Stephen Roberts

Opis

What is the relation between social class and social justice? This is currently a matter of public as well as academic interest. In this compelling new study the authors bring together recent developments in normative thinking about social justice with new empirical findings about educational attainment and social mobility. The result is a path-breaking contribution to the study of class and justice, one that will be of interest to sociologists and political theorists for years to come.

Recenzje

The book is lucidly written, and the fact that all technical details and specialist knowledge have been put in appendices makes it very accessible. Both the political-philosophical and the empirical sociological analyses are thorough. The authors have provided us with important new information on the relation between social inequality and social mobility on the one hand and social justice on the other...Marshall et al are to be congratulated for their efforts. Their book is an important contribution to the academic debate in the field of social inequality and social justice. - European Sociological Review. July 1998.

O autorze

Stephen Roberts was formerly Research Officer at Nuffield College, Oxford