Stratification : social division and inequality / Wendy Bottero.
2005
HM821 .B68 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Stratification : social division and inequality / Wendy Bottero.
Author
Bottero, Wendy, 1965-
ISBN
0415281784 (hardcover)
9780415281782 (hardcover)
0415281792 (softcover)
9780415281799 (softcover)
9780415281782 (hardcover)
0415281792 (softcover)
9780415281799 (softcover)
Publication Details
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Language
English
Description
vi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
HM821 .B68 2005
Alternate Call Number
71.12
Dewey Decimal Classification
305
Summary
"Exploring how hierarchy affects our tastes and leisure-time activities, and who we choose (and hang on to) as our friends and partners, Stratification: Social division and inequality considers how ordinary, everyday activities - going to work, spending time with our friends, pursuing hobbies and interests, socialising with family - help to reproduce inequalities in social position and resources."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-275) and index.
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Table of Contents
Stratification and social distance
Images of inequality
Founding ideas
Sins of the fathers
Name, rank and number : measuring stratification
Racialised relations
A woman's place
Culture and anarchy
Social space
Someone like me
Hierarchy makes you sick
Movements in space
'Us' and 'them'
Reproducing hierarchy.
Images of inequality
Founding ideas
Sins of the fathers
Name, rank and number : measuring stratification
Racialised relations
A woman's place
Culture and anarchy
Social space
Someone like me
Hierarchy makes you sick
Movements in space
'Us' and 'them'
Reproducing hierarchy.