Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits

The contributions in this book highlight,contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are thevarious cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recentdecades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written byauthors from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions, thesecontributions provide a rich account of inequality within contemporary society.The role of the state, the media and the market in exacerbating and alleviatingpatterns of equality are all accessed alongside analysis of changing patternsof exclusion and hierarchy.   

List of contents

Modernsociety and social inequality.- The sources of social inequality.- Theconsequences of inequality.- Capitalism and Inequality.- Culture and Inequality.- Governing and Inequality.- Media and Inequality.- Global and Local Inequality.  

About the author

Amanda
Machin, PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Karl Mannheim Chair for
Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen.

Nico Stehr, PhD, FRSC, is Karl Mannheim Professor for
Cultural Studies at Zeppelin
University Friedrichshafen.  

Summary

The contributions in this book highlight,
contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the
various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent
decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by
authors from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions, these
contributions provide a rich account of inequality within contemporary society.
The role of the state, the media and the market in exacerbating and alleviating
patterns of equality are all accessed alongside analysis of changing patterns
of exclusion and hierarchy.   

Product details

• Assisted by: Amand Machin (Editor), Amanda Machin (Editor), STEHR (Editor), Stehr (Editor), Nico Stehr (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: German, English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783658116620
• ISBN: 978-3-658-11662-0
• No. of pages: 427
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 580 g
• Illustrations: VII, 427 p. 31 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Series: Springer VS; zu schriften der Zeppelin Universität. zwischen Wirtschaft, Kultur und Politik; zu | schriften der Zeppelin Universität. zwischen Wirtschaft, Kultur und Politik; zu | schriften der Zeppelin Universität. zwischen Wirtschaft, Kultur und Politik; zu schriften der Zeppelin Universität. zwischen Wirtschaft, Kultur und Politik; zu | schriften
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous