The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course

ISBN-13: 9781032163512 / Miękka / 2023 / 432 str.

Opis

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality, such as economic, gender, racial and ethnic inequalities, across a variety of social contexts, including health, education and the family.

Spis treści

Section 1– Inequality as process

Introduction - Doing Inequalities over the life course

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

1. Inequality across time: social change, biography and the life course

Dale Dannefer, Chengming Han, and Jiao Yu

2. Poverty and economic insecurity in the life course

Leen Vandecasteele, Dario Spini, Nicolas Sommet, and Felix Bühlmann

3. Inequality as process

Elisabetta Ruspini

4. Life course inequality and policy: a focus on child well-being

Gary Pollock, Jessica Ozan, and Haridhan Goswami

　

Section 2– Assessing inequalities: complementary methods

Introduction - Imagining the understanding of inequalities

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

5. Studying social inequality over the life course in modern societies. The methodological importance of life course studies

Gwendolin J. Blossfeld and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

6. The analysis of inequality in life trajectories: an integration of two approaches

Danilo Bolano and André Berchtold

7. Evolution of COVID-19 lethality and geographically contrasting socio-economic factors in Brazil: a multilevel perspective

Joseph F. Hair, Jr, Luiz Paulo Fávero, and Rafael de Freitas Souza

8. Health inequalities across the life course: theories, statistical pitfalls, and the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Fabian Kratz

　

Section 3 – The social stratification of health

Introduction - The inherent longitudinality of health inequalities

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

9. Mental health inequalities

Jane D. McLeod and Max E. Coleman

10. How an analysis of lifespan inequality can contribute to our understanding of life course inequalities

Alyson van Raalte

11. Two centuries of inequalities: disability and partnership in Sweden

Lotta Vikström, Kateryna Karhina, and Johan Junkka

12. The Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and the life course

Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Laura Bernardi, Juho Härkönen, Toni C. Antonucci, Pearl A. Dykstra, Jutta Heckhausen, Diana Kuh, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Phyllis Moen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Clara H. Mulder, Timothy M. Smeeding, Tanja Van Der Lippe, Gunhild O. Hagestad, Martin Kohli, René Levy, Ingrid Schoon, and Elizabeth Thomson

　

Section 4 – Economic and wealth inequalities

Introduction - The challenge of complexity in the analysis of economic inequalities

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

13. Concepts of social stratification—static and dynamic perspectives

Steffen Hillmert

14. Optimising the use of measures of social stratification in research with intersectional and longitudinal analytical priorities

Paul Lambert and Camilla Barnett

15. Stagnation and inequality in a historical view: a comment on Piketty's analysis of capitalism and the Portuguese case

Francisco Louçã

16. Things can’t only get better: inequality and democracy over a life-span

Kevin Albertson and Richard Whittle

Section 5 – Youth, education and transition to adulthood

Introduction - Half way down the stairs – somewhere else instead

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

17. Expansion and improved permeability of post-secondary education in Germany: consequences for social inequalities in educational attainment

Nicole Tieben and Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt

18. Educational expansion across cohorts and over the life course: an international comparison of (rapid) educational expansion and the consequences of the differentiation of tertiary education

Pia Blossfeld, Gwendolin J. Blossfeld, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

19. Class in successive life courses in Britain since 1945

Ken Roberts

20. Mapping young Norwegians’ self-projects and future orientations

Ingunn Marie Eriksen and Kari Stefansen

Section 6 – Family and linked lives

Introduction - Families at the heart of linked (lives and) inequalities

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

21. Care inequality in later life in ageing societies: the unequal distribution of the intensity of informal support in Europe

Marco Albertini and Riccardo Prandini

22. The apple, the tree and the forest: family histories as radars of social mobility and inequalities

Magda Nico and Maria Gilvania Valdivino Silva

23. Family formation and social inequalities. A life course perspective

Stefano Cantalini

24. Farewell’s children: using the life course perspective to understand female late fertility Rosalina Pisco Costa

Section 7 – Gender inequalities

Introduction - Gender inequalities: time-varying and trajectories

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

25. The mutual constitution of gendered and sexualised inequalities in life courses

José Fernando Serrano-Amaya

26. Gender trajectories and the production of inequalities from a life course perspective

Sofia Aboim and Pedro Vasconcelos

27. Inequalities in work and the intersectional life course

Phyllis Moen and Mahala Miller

28. LGBTIQ+ life course inequalities and queer temporalities

Maria do Mar Varela and Yener Bayramoğlu

Section 8 – Racial and ethnic inequalities

Introduction - The weight of structure on the skin

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

29. The centrality of race to inequality across the world-system

Manuela Boatca

30. A life course approach to understanding ethnic health inequalities in later life: an example using the United Kingdom as national context

Sarah Stopforth, Laia Bécares, James Nazroo, and Dharmi Kapadia

31. The inequalities of empire: comparative perspectives

Cátia Antunes and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo

32. How the COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the migrant-inequality narrative

Ferdinand C. Mukumbang

O autorze

Magda Nico is a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. She is currently coordinating a project on the importance and dynamics of ‘linked lives’ within families. Her research interests include life course theory and methods, family histories, social mobility, and the processes of inequalities.

Gary Pollock is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He currently coordinates the European Research Council-funded Cohort Community Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe (COORDINATE) project and has previously led the European Cohort Development (EDCP) and Measuring Youth Well-Being (MYWEB) projects. His research interests include the design and analysis of survey data on children and young people and their life trajectories, particularly using longitudinal techniques.