Changing Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Yannick Lemel; Heinz Noll

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 470
• Series: Comparative Charting of Social Change; 10
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The international sociological community has engaged recently in a controversial discussion on social inequality. There is a vigourous debate on whether the traditional concepts of social class and social stratification are still useful. Some researchers argue that social classes still offer a key explanation to social inequalities while others challenge the long-standing tradition of class analysis. New approaches have been proposed to describe recent social changes in the stratification system: vanishing middle class, two-thirds societies, cosmographic inequality, and classless society, among others.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Changing Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Perspective
RESEARCH TRADITIONS
Social Stratification. The Distinctiveness of French Research
Class, Stratification and Beyond: The German Case
Empirical Studies on Social Stratification in Quebec and Canada
Social Stratification and Inequalities in Spain: The State of the Art
Research on Class in the United States
Some Problems With the Comparative Charting of Trends in Inequality
SUBSTANTIAL ANALYSES
The Distribution of Income and Wealth in European and North-American Societies
Educational Inequalities: Distribution of Knowledge, Social Origins and Social Outcomes
Status Consistency Trends of Occupational, Educational and Economic Position in France, Germany and the United States
International Migration and Inequality
Gender Inequality in Five Modern Societies
Inequality: The Structuring Effect of Social Class in Four Societies
Conclusions
Author Index
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Subject Index
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Country Index
The Authors