HANDBOOK ON SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE BRIC COUNTRIES

Along with the fast growing economy, the term "BRICs" was coined to represent the newly emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved people's life; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced the transformation of social structure, norms and values. However, as the world's attention centers on their economic development at the micro level, the social changes at the micro level have often been neglected, and a specific comparative study of these four countries is even more rare. This book, written by the leading sociologists in the four countries, fills the gap in knowledge and examines specifically the changes in each society from the perspective of social stratification, with topics covering the main social classes, the inequality of education and income, the different styles of consumption as well as the class consciousness and values. Under every topic, it gathers articles from authors of each country. Such a comparative study could not only help us achieve better understanding of the economic growth and social development in these countries, but also lead us to unveil the mystery of how these emerging powers with dramatic differences in history, geography, culture, language, religion, etc., could share a common will and take joint action. In general, the book takes a unique perspective to show the readers that it is the profound social structural changes in these countries that determine their future, and to a large extent, will shape the socio-economic landscape of the future world.

List of contents

Changes in Social Stratification: Social Stratification and its Transformation in Brazil (Celi Scalon); Changes in the Social Structure of Russian Society within in a Period of Transformation (Z T Golenkova & M K Gorshkov); Social Stratification and Change in Contemporary India (K L Sharma); Changes to Chinese Social Stratification since Reform (Li Peilin); The Working Class: Labor, Workers, and Politics in Contemporary Brazil: 1980 - 2010 (Marco Aurelio Santana); The Working Class in a Transitional Society: from the Soviet Union to the Russian Republic (Z T Golenkova); The Urban Industrial Working Class and the Rural Peasant Working Class in India (K L Sharma); The Status Quo and Change to the Working Class in Contemporary China (Wei Li & Feng Tian); Peasants: The Brazilian Peasantry: A History of Resistance (Maria de Nazareth Baudel Wanderley); The Transformation of the Social Structure in Modern Rural Russia (A A Hagurov); The Differentiation of the Peasantry in India since Independence and Reform (K L Sharma); Rural Society and Peasants in China (Ping Fan); Enterprises and Entrepreneurship: Innovative Entrepreneurship in Brazil (Sonia K Guimaraes); The Development of Entrepreneurship in Russia: Main Trends and the Status Quo (Alexander Chepurenko); Tradition and Entrepreneurship of Indian Private Entrepreneurs (K L Sharma); China's Fledgling Private Entrepreneurs in a Transitional Economy (Guangjin Chen); The Middle Class: The Making of the Middle Class in Brazil: History and Prospects (Andre Salata and Celi Scalon); The Middle Class in Russian Society: Homogeneity or Heterogeneity? (N E Tichonova and S V Mareyeva); The Rise of the Middle Class in India since Independence (K L Sharma); The Heterogeneous Composition and Multiple Identities of China's Middle Class (Chunling Li); Income Inequality: Income Inequality and Social Stratification in Brazil: Key Determining Factors and Changes in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century (Lygia Costa & Celi Scalon); Income Inequality in Russia (Yu Epikhina); Poverty and Income Inequality in India's Urban and Rural Areas (K L Sharma); Structural Characteristics and Trends of Income Inequality in China (Guangjin Chen); Educational Inequality: Educational Inequality and Social Stratification in Brazil (Marcio da Costa, Mariane C Koslinski & Lygia Costa); Educational Inequality in Russia: from the School to the Market (D L Konstantinovsky); Education and Social Stratification in India: Systematic Inequality (K L Sharma); Educational Inequality and Educational Expansion in China (Chunling Li); Consumption: Beyond Social Stratification: A New Angle on Consumer Practices in Contemporary Brazil (Marcelo Castaneda); Class Differentiation and the Urban-Rural Disparity in Consumptions and Lifestyles in Russia (P M Kozyreva, A N Nizamova & A I Smirnov); The New Emerging Consumption Class and their Lifestyles (K L Sharma); The Stratification of Consumption among Social Classes, Occupational Groups, and Identity Groups in China (Feng Tian); Class Consciousness and Values: Working Class Formation in Brazil: From Unions to State Power (Adalberto Cardoso); The Research of Class and Group Consciousness in Contemporary Russia (Mikhail F Chernysh); Social Class Connection and Class Identity in Urban and Rural Areas (K L Sharma); Stratum Consciousness and Stratum Identification in China (Wei Li).

Product details

• Authors: M K Gorshkov Celi Scalon & K Peilin Li
• Assisted by: M. K. Gorshkov (Editor), Mikhail K Gorshkov (Editor), Peilin Li (Editor), Celi Scalon (Editor), K L Sharma (Editor)
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2013
• EAN: 9789814390415
• ISBN: 978-981-4390-41-5
• No. of pages: 856
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 50 mm
• Weight: 1366 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories