Understanding Inequalities

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Stratification and Difference

By Lucinda Platt

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Understanding Inequalities offers a rigorous and up-to-date exploration of the many dimensions of social inequality, including class, gender, ethnicity, disability, and migration status. Lucinda Platt examines how these factors influence education, health, poverty, housing, and neighbourhood circumstances, demonstrating their cumulative impact over a lifetime. The book is richly illustrated with figures and real-world examples, making complex social patterns accessible and clear. Newly added chapters on disability and international migration enhance its comprehensive, theoretically-sophisticated survey, ideal for undergraduate and masters students.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is especially suited for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying sociology, social policy, education, or related social sciences. It will also benefit researchers and practitioners seeking a detailed, empirical and theoretical understanding of contemporary social inequalities.

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Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition of Understanding Inequalities gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people’s lives.

Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability, and migration status, it demonstrates how these play out in relation to education, health, poverty, neighbourhood, and housing, and how they cumulate across the life course. Richly illustrated with figures and concrete examples showing the distribution of life chances across social groups, the book demonstrates how people’s lives are structured by inequalities across multiple dimensions.

Comprehensive topical chapters are framed by an exploration of the meaning and interpretation of inequalities, and a discussion highlighting the important intersections between them. With new chapters on disability and international migration, this updated edition continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike.

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Heidi Mirza, Emeritus Professor at UCL Institute of Education, praises the book's "razor-sharp forensic analysis" that highlights intersecting inequalities in intimate and lived experiences. Brian Nolan, University of Oxford, commends its clear, comprehensive and nuanced treatment of the nature and extent of inequalities, especially timely amid current political debates.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509521265

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 April 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 248

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About the Author

Lucinda Platt is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.