Stratification and Differentiation

ISBN-13: 9780333671917 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str.

Mark Kirby

Opis

This accessible text explores the staggering rise in inequality in recent years. It includes recent empirical material on all the key dimensions of inequality, including class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability, and considers both classical and new theoretical approaches to the study of these dimensions of social stratification and difference. The exercises and overall active learning approach offer students ample scope to exercise and develop their sociological skills.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Measuring Social Class.- The Changing Class Structure.- Theories of Class Inequality.- The End of Social Class?.- Gender and Inequality.- Theories of Gender Inequality.- Ethnicity and Inequality.- Theories of Racial and Ethnic Inequality.- Age, Disability, Locality and Inequality.

O autorze

MARK KIRBY teaches sociology at Amersham and Wycombe College. He is an assistant examiner for the Associated Examining Board and a member of their sociology subject committee. He is also actively involved with the Association for the Teaching of the Social Sciences.