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"Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people's lives. It continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike"-- "Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people's lives. Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability and migration status, it demonstrates how these play out in relation to education, health, poverty, neighbourhood and housing, and how they cumulate across the life course. Richly illustrated with figures and concrete examples showing the distribution of life chances across social groups, the book shows how people's lives are structured by inequalities across multiple dimensions. Comprehensive topical chapters are framed by an exploration of the meaning and interpretation of inequalities and a discussion highlighting the important intersections between them. With new chapters on disability and on international migration, this new edition continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike"--

Social stratification --- Social problems --- 651 Maatschappij. Algemeen --- Equality --- Equality - Great Britain --- Social stratification - Great Britain

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There is little question about the colossal importance of inequality in society today.With huge amounts of wealth concentrated in the hands of a few “super-rich,” growing social movementschallenging the power wielded byrich elites, and opinion polls demonstrating popular concern with the gaps between the better and worse off, contemporaryinequality is of great public and political interest. However, many important questions continue to be subject to debate. How much inequality is acceptable? Is inequality increasing and, if so, where? What are the consequencesof inequality and whois mostaffected? Lucinda Platt provides the reader with insights and tools to evaluate the various claims made about the extent and implications of inequality. Addressing both conceptualissues relating to the meaning of inequality and practical challenges of its measurement, this concise book is a necessary starting point for getting to grips with the defining feature of our times.

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This volume addresses the origin and effects of advantage and disadvantage from a global and UK perspective. It provides an overview of a variety of conceptual frameworks and a spectrum of social inequalities, processes, and divisions.

Social history. --- Equality. --- Poverty. --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History

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Minorities --- Poverty --- Social medicine --- Medical care --- Social conditions