This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature.
Written by leading scholars in the field of economic inequality, all 17 chapters draw on microdata from the databases of LIS, an esteemed cross-national data center based in Luxembourg. Using LIS data to structure a comparative approach, the contributors paint a complex portrait of inequality across affluent countries at the beginning of the 21st century. The volume also trail-blazes new research into inequality in countries newly entering the LIS databases, including Japan, Iceland, India, and South Africa.
Описание: Many parents, teachers, and doctors believe that childhood obesity is a social problem that needs to be solved. Yet, missing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems details processes of embodied inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related to their body size, how they explained the causes of those differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.
Автор: Manfred Liebel Название: Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity ISBN: 1447356411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447356417 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Uses a wide range of international case studies form the Global South to examine the stark repercussions of colonial conquest on children`s lives and childhood policy today. Liebel shows the work that we must do to decolonize childhoods globally and ensure that children`s rights are better promoted and protected.
Автор: Manfred Liebel Название: Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity ISBN: 1447356403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447356400 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 15838.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Uses a wide range of international case studies form the Global South to examine the stark repercussions of colonial conquest on children`s lives and childhood policy today. Liebel shows the work that we must do to decolonize childhoods globally and ensure that children`s rights are better promoted and protected.
Описание: This book provides a comprehensive review of income inequality issues in the OECD in a cross-country setting. It presents a wealth of data and analysis on the formation of inequality and identifies groups of countries that share similar inequality patterns. It also reviews developments at the extremes of the income distribution, namely poverty, top incomes as well as the distribution of wealth. An important contribution of the book is the careful examination of the determinants of the income distribution, such as globalisation and technical progress as well as the effect of a wide range of economic policies that shape the distribution of income. These include in particular labour market regulations, household taxes and transfers as well as in-kind public services. It also sheds light on an under-researched issue: do policies aimed at boosting economic growth raise or reduce income inequality?
Описание: Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work analyses nine countries` perspectives on Diversity Management and their increasing awareness of diversity, equality, racism and discrimination within companies and organisations throughout Europe.
Автор: Ross D. Parke, Glen H. Elder, Jr Название: Children in Changing Worlds: Sociocultural and Temporal Perspectives ISBN: 1108404464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108404464 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book applies a historical, cultural, and life-course developmental framework to understand the factors affecting how children adjust to social, economic, and cultural challenges. Written by eminent scholars, it is ideal for researchers and graduate students in developmental and educational psychology, sociology, and anthropology of childhood.
Автор: Torpey-Saboe Название: Measuring Education Inequality in Developing Countries ISBN: 3319906283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319906287 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book constructs a measure of education inequality using time-series cross-national data and utilizes real-world examples based on author interviews.
Описание: While the process of global trade integration has contributed to broad economic gains at country levels and convergence between developed and developing countries, it has also been accompanied by polarization in the distribution of income, sometimes increasing within-country income inequality.
Описание: Positioning youth culture as a 20th century social experiment that is coming to an end, Marcel Danesi discusses the various musically-defined eras that saw rise to hippie culture, punk, disco, and the hip-hop movement, among other social groups. The chapters explore how these generations were instrumental in the fight against racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and sexual repression.
Описание: To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual utilization of mobile phones as a means of communication and the degree to which they have supplanted fixed-line phones.
Название: Reversing urban inequality in johannesburg ISBN: 1138320447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138320444 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book asks if Johannesburg can unstitch its complex urban fabric to create a city with more democratic public transport, affordable housing in desirable locations and safe, socially and racially integrated public spaces. These essays are instructive for those interested in questions of urban development, history and planning.
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