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Pourquoi nos sociétés développées engendrent-elles autant de mal-être ? Mal-être personnel, mais aussi collectif. Et si l’augmentation des richesses n’était pas le gage d’une prospérité sociale et individuelle ? Kate Pickett et Richard Wilkinson, spécialistes mondialement reconnus, proposent une thèse révolutionnaire sur les rapports existants entre inégalité et bien-être.Les auteurs présentent en effet des preuves accablantes que les inégalités matérielles ont des effets psychologiques puissants : quand l’écart entre les riches et les pauvres s’accroît, nous avons bien plus tendance à nous définir et nous évaluer en termes de supériorité et d’infériorité. Et c’est en analysant à la fois l’épidémie d’anxiété actuelle, les comportements de classes, les stéréotypes sociaux, les rapports de domination ou les logiques consuméristes, qu’ils érigent une thèse d’une rare pertinence. Ainsi, ils démontrent qu’un statut social bas entraîne des niveaux plus élevés de stress. Ou bien que les taux d’anxiété et de dépression sont étroitement liés aux inégalités. Ils contestent surtout ardemment la croyance selon laquelle les humains sont naturellement compétitifs et égoïstes tet celle qui voit dans les inégalités le résultat de différences « naturelles » de capacités individuelles.Ils proposent enfin de nombreuses pistes pour construire ensemble les fondations d’un monde plus égalitaire… et donc plus heureux.

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Social stratification --- Trends --- Maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen --- Sociologie --- 316.34 --- 316.34 Sociale differentiatie. Sociale typologie. Sociale stratificatie --- Sociale differentiatie. Sociale typologie. Sociale stratificatie --- Trend --- Maatschappelijke ontwikkeling --- Erfelijkheidsleer --- Stadssamenleving --- Verpleegkunde

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This eye-opening UK bestseller shows how one single factor--the gap between its richest and poorest members--can determine the health and well-being of a society. The authors also outline a new political outlook in which a shift from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society is paramount.

Social stratification --- Social policy --- AA / International- internationaal --- 313 --- 321.0 --- Equality --- Social mobility --- Quality of life --- 306.01 --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën). --- De staat. De maatschappijen. De maatschappelijke klassen. Algemene naslagwerken. --- Equality. --- Income distribution. --- Quality of life. --- Social mobility. --- Social policy. --- Sociale agogiek --- planning en beleid --- planning en beleid. --- Income distribution --- Distribution of income --- Income inequality --- Inequality of income --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Disposable income --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën) --- De staat. De maatschappijen. De maatschappelijke klassen. Algemene naslagwerken

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Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality. In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debate by showing conclusively that less-equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how inequality affects us individually, how it alters how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that material inequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to defi ne and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority. A deep well of data and analysis is drawn upon to empirically show, for example, that low social status is associated with elevated levels of stress, and how rates of anxiety and depression are intimately related to the inequality which makes that status paramount. Wilkinson and Pickett describe how these responses to hierarchies evolved, and why the impacts of inequality on us are so severe. In doing so, they challenge the conception that humans are innately competitive and self-interested. They undermine, too, the idea that inequality is the product of 'natural' differences in individual ability. This book sheds new light on many of the most urgent problems facing societies today, but it is not just an index of our ills. It demonstrates that societies based on fundamental equalities, sharing and reciprocity generate much higher levels of well-being, and lays out the path towards them.

sociale ongelijkheid --- 301.17 --- Sociology

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Social psychology --- Social stratification --- Social problems --- Sociology of health