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Social stratification --- Social change --- Social geography

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Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. Drawing upon personal interviews with 35,000 households in different parts of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and the United States, it takes you on an illustrative journey, filled with facts, analyses, and the life stories

Poverty. --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Poverty --- E-books --- Social stratification --- Social problems

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Empirical literature in disciplines ranging from behavioural genetics to economics shows that in virtually every aspect of life the outcomes of children are correlated to a greater or lesser extent with the outcomes of their parents. Beenstock offers theoretical and methodological tools for understanding these correlations.

Nature and nurture --- Heredity. --- Families. --- Equality. --- Social stratification. --- Econometric models. --- BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology --- ECONOMICS/General

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'Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity' offers analysis of articulation of consumer culture and modernity in everyday lives of people in a transnational framework. It pursues three broad themes: lifestyle and construction of modern identity; fashion and identity; and subaltern concerns and moral subjectivities. It juxtaposes empirical studies with theoretical traditions in addressing questions such as: How do people imagine modernity and identity in consumer culture? What does modernity or 'being modern' mean to people in different societies? Are modernity and tradition antithetical to or develop an interface with each other?

Consumption (Economics) --- Consumers. --- Group identity. --- Social stratification. --- Stratification, Social --- Equality --- Social structure --- Social classes --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Customers (Consumers) --- Shoppers --- Persons --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Social aspects. --- Consumers --- Group identity --- Social stratification --- Social aspects --- E-books

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Finance is an extraordinarily effective tool in spreading economic opportunity and fighting poverty. India has a relatively deep financial system and wide network of rural banks. But India?s financial markets and institutions have not served poor people well; despite improvements in the delivery of financial services over the past three decades, the vast majority of India?s poor households, who are concentrated in rural areas, do not have access to formal finance. Improving Access to Finance for India's Rural Poor examines the current level and pattern of access to finance for India?s rural ho

Social stratification --- Private finance --- India --- Finance --- Microfinance --- Rural poor --- Financial institutions --- Finances --- Pauvres en milieu rural --- Institutions financières --- Finance - India --- Microfinance - India --- Rural poor - India --- Financial institutions - India --- Acqui 2006