Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.
Inequalities are not static, easily measurable, and essentially quantifiable circumstances of life. They are processes which impact on individuals throughout the life course, interacting with each other, accumulating, attenuating, reproducing, or distorting themselves along the way. The chapters in this handbook examine various types of inequality, such as economic, gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities, and analyse how these inequalities manifest themselves within different aspects of society, including health, education, and the family, at multiple levels and dimensions. The handbook also tackles the global COVID-19 pandemic and its striking impact on the production and intensification of inequalities.
The interdisciplinary life course approach utilised in this handbook combines quantitative and qualitative methods to bridge the gap between theory and practice and offer strategies and principles for identifying and tackling issues of inequality. This book will be indispensable for students and researchers as well as activists and policy makers interested in understanding and eradicating the processes of production, reproduction, and perpetuation of inequalities.

Table des matières

Section 1- Inequality as process

Introduction - Doing Inequalities over the life course
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

1. Inequality across time: social change, biography and the life course

Dale Dannefer, Chengming Han, and Jiao Yu



2. Poverty and economic insecurity in the life course

Leen Vandecasteele, Dario Spini, Nicolas Sommet, and Felix Bühlmann



3. Inequality as process

Elisabetta Ruspini



4. Life course inequality and policy: a focus on child well-being

Gary Pollock, Jessica Ozan, and Haridhan Goswami


Section 2- Assessing inequalities: complementary methods

Introduction - Imagining the understanding of inequalities
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock



5. Studying social inequality over the life course in modern societies. The methodological importance of life course studies

Gwendolin J. Blossfeld and Hans-Peter Blossfeld



6. The analysis of inequality in life trajectories: an integration of two approaches
Danilo Bolano and André Berchtold


7. Evolution of COVID-19 lethality and geographically contrasting socio-economic factors in Brazil: a multilevel perspective

Joseph F. Hair, Jr, Luiz Paulo Fávero, and Rafael de Freitas Souza



8. Health inequalities across the life course: theories, statistical pitfalls, and the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Fabian Kratz


Section 3 - The social stratification of health

Introduction - The inherent longitudinality of health inequalities
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock



9. Mental health inequalities

Jane D. McLeod and Max E. Coleman



10. How an analysis of lifespan inequality can contribute to our understanding of life course inequalities

Alyson van Raalte



11. Two centuries of inequalities: disability and partnership in Sweden

Lotta Vikström, Kateryna Karhina, and Johan Junkka



12. The Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and the life course

Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Laura Bernardi, Juho Härkönen, Toni C. Antonucci, Pearl A. Dykstra, Jutta Heckhausen, Diana Kuh, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Phyllis Moen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Clara H. Mulder, Timothy M. Smeeding, Tanja Van Der Lippe, Gunhild O. Hagestad, Martin Kohli, René Levy, Ingrid Schoon, and Elizabeth Thomson


Section 4 - Economic and wealth inequalities

Introduction - The challenge of complexity in the analysis of economic inequalities
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock



13. Concepts of social stratification-static and dynamic perspectives

Steffen Hillmert



14. Optimising the use of measures of social stratification in research with intersectional and longitudinal analytical priorities

Paul Lambert and Camilla Barnett



15. Stagnation and inequality in a historical view: a comment on Piketty's analysis of capitalism and the Portuguese case

Francisco Louçã



16. Things can't only get better: inequality and democracy over a life-span

Kevin Albertson and Richard Whittle


Section 5 - Youth, education and transition to adulthood

Introduction - Half way down the stairs - somewhere else instead
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock



17. Expansion and improved permeability of post-secondary education in Germany: consequences for social inequalities in educational attainment

Nicole Tieben and Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt



18. Educational expansion across cohorts and over the life course: an international comparison of (rapid) educational expansion and the consequences of the differentiation of tertiary education

Pia Blossfeld, Gwendolin J. Blossfeld, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld



19. Class in successive life courses in Britain since 1945

Ken Roberts



20. Mapping young Norwegians' self-projects and future orientations

Ingunn Marie Eriksen and Kari Stefansen


Section 6 - Family and linked lives

Introduction - Families at the heart of linked (lives and) inequalities
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock



21. Care inequality in later life in ageing societies: the unequal distribution of the intensity of informal support in Europe

Marco Albertini and Riccardo Prandini



22. The apple, the tree and the forest: family histories as radars of social mobility and inequalities

Magda Nico and Maria Gilvania Valdivino Silva



23. Family formation and social inequalities. A life course perspective

Stefano Cantalini



24. Farewell's children: using the life course perspective to understand female late fertility Rosalina Pisco Costa



Section 7 - Gender inequalities

Introduction - Gender inequalities: time-varying and trajectories
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock



25. The mutual constitution of gendered and sexualised inequalities in life courses

José Fernando Serrano-Amaya



26. Gender trajectories and the production of inequalities from a life course perspective

Sofia Aboim and Pedro Vasconcelos



27. Inequalities in work and the intersectional life course

Phyllis Moen and Mahala Miller



28. LGBTIQ+ life course inequalities and queer temporalities

Maria do Mar Varela and Yener Bayramoglu


Section 8 - Racial and ethnic inequalities

Introduction - The weight of structure on the skin
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock



29. The centrality of race to inequality across the world-system

Manuela Boatca



30. A life course approach to understanding ethnic health inequalities in later life: an example using the United Kingdom as national context

Sarah Stopforth, Laia Bécares, James Nazroo, and Dharmi Kapadia



31. The inequalities of empire: comparative perspectives

Cátia Antunes and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo



32. How the COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the migrant-inequality narrative

Ferdinand C. Mukumbang

Résumé

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.
Inequalities are not static, easily measurable, and essentially quantifiable circumstances of life. They are processes which impact on individuals throughout the life course, interacting with each other, accumulating, attenuating, reproducing, or distorting themselves along the way. The chapters in this handbook examine various types of inequality, such as economic, gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities, and analyse how these inequalities manifest themselves within different aspects of society, including health, education, and the family, at multiple levels and dimensions. The handbook also tackles the global COVID-19 pandemic and its striking impact on the production and intensification of inequalities.
The interdisciplinary life course approach utilised in this handbook combines quantitative and qualitative methods to bridge the gap between theory and practice and offer strategies and principles for identifying and tackling issues of inequality. This book will be indispensable for students and researchers as well as activists and policy makers interested in understanding and eradicating the processes of production, reproduction, and perpetuation of inequalities.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Magda (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon Nico
• Collaboration: Magda Nico (Editeur), Gary Pollock (Editeur), Pollock Gary (Editeur)
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032163512
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3216351-2
• Pages: 432
• Thème: Routledge International Handbooks
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Sciences de la communication; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Europe, Cultural Studies, European History, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural history, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Personal & public health, General & world history, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Social classes, Human Geography, Research methods: general