Rethinking Social Inequality

Description

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 2001, is comprised of original books published in conjunction with the British Sociological Association. The set draws together original research by leading academics based on study groups and conference papers, in the areas of youth, race, the sociology of work, gender, social research, urban studies, class, deviance and social control, law, development, and health. Each volume provides a rigorous examination of related key issues. This set will be of particular interest to students and academics in the field of sociology, health and social care, gender studies and criminology respectively. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Rethinking Inequality 2. White Sociology, Black Struggle 3. Female Manual Workers, Fatalism and the Reinforcement of Inequalities 4. The Generation Game: Playing by the Rules 5. Aging and Inequality: Consumer Culture and the New Middle Age 6. Egalitarianism and Social Inequality in Scotland 7. Inequality of Access to Political Television: The Case of the General Election of 1979 8. Classes, Class Fractions and Monetarism 9. Moral Economy and the Welfare State 10. Towards a Celebration of Difference(s): Notes for a sociology of a possible everyday future