Fractured Identities Changing Patterns of Inequality

Name: Fractured Identities Changing Patterns of Inequality
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ISBN: 9780745610849

ISBN-10: 0745610846

ISBN-13: 9780745610849

Edition: 1996

Authors: Harriett Bradley

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Despite claims about the "classless society", modern industrial societies such as Britain and America are characterized by widening gaps between rich and poor. At the same time, inequalities of class overlap with other inequalities, such as those of ethnicity or gender. Recent research in sociology has highlighted the growing complexity of patterns of stratification and the interplay between different aspects of inequality. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to past and current theories of stratification and inequality. It pulls together work in the areas of class, gender, race and age, locating the analysis within current debates over modernity and post-modernity.Separate…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 1/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792



List of tables


Introduction



Inequality, fragmentation and identity



Capitalism, modernity and change



Class: beyond Marx?



Gender: rethinking patriarchy



"Race" and ethnicity: 'travelling in the West'



Age: a neglected dimension of stratification



Some international comparisons


Conclusion


Fractured identities: processes of fragmentation and polarization in post-industrial capitalist societies


Bibliography and sources


Index