Economic development and a dramatic improvement in living standards in many parts of the People's Republic of China during the past three decades of economic reforms have been hailed by the Chinese Communist Party and many commentators in the international arena as the most spectacular achievements in the history of humanity. However, three decades of economic reforms have also transformed China from one of the world's most egalitarian societies into one of the most unequal.
This book offers a comprehensive account of inequality in China from an interdisciplinary perspective. It both draws on, and speaks to, the existing body of literature that is generated mainly in the fields of economics and sociology, while extending its scope to also examine the political, social, moral and cultural dimensions of inequality. Each chapter addresses the question of inequality from a specific context of research, including housing, health care, social welfare, education, migration, land distribution, law, gender and sexuality. Moving beyond traditional socio-economic theories, the contributors to this volume explore a wide range of social, political, economic and cultural practices that result from, as well as further entrench, the inequalities in Chinese society. Importantly, the essays in Unequal China probe the hidden causes of inequality - namely, the role of state power and the importance of culture - and underline how both state power and cultural factors have a key part to play in legitimating inequality.
With an innovative approach that moves beyond the economic and sociological roots of inequality in China, this volume is a welcome addition to what is a growing field of study, and will appeal to students and scholars interested in Chinese culture and society, Chinese politics and Asian social policy.
Описание: This book rethinks meritocracy as a form of coloniality, namely, a social imaginary that reproduces narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and peripheries, and between Europe and its others. Drawing on interviews with working and middle class, white and Black Italians who moved to Britain after the 2008 economic crisis, the book explores the narratives of Northern meritocracy and Southern backwardness that inform migrants' motivations for moving abroad, and how these narratives are experienced within classed, racialised and gendered migrations. Connecting decolonial theory with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this book provides innovative insights into the relationships between meritocracy, coloniality and European whiteness, and into the social stratification of EU migrations.
Автор: G. Betti; F. Bettio; T. Georgiadis; P. Tinios Название: Unequal Ageing in Europe ISBN: 1349480827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349480821 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While much is known about the situation in the labour market in the form of gender pay and earnings gaps, rather little is understood about their sequel in old age the gender pension gap. An intuitive indicator for a pension gender gap is derived and contrasted with equivalent indicators for pay and earnings gaps.
Описание: The Affordable Care Act’s impact on coverage, access to care, and systematic exclusion in our health care system The Affordable Care Act set off an unprecedented wave of health insurance enrollment as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system since 1965. In the years since its enactment, some 20 million uninsured Americans gained access to coverage. And yet, the law remained unpopular and politically vulnerable. While the ACA extended social protections to some groups, its implementation was troubled and the act itself created new forms of exclusion. Access to affordable coverage options were highly segmented by state of residence, income, and citizenship status. Unequal Coverage documents the everyday experiences of individuals and families across the U.S. as they attempted to access coverage and care in the five years following the passage of the ACA.It argues that while the Affordable Care Act succeeded in expanding access to care, it did so unevenly, ultimately also generating inequality and stratification. The volume investigates the outcomes of the ACA in communities throughout the country and provides up-close, intimate portraits of individuals and groups trying to access and provide health care for both the newly insured and those who remain uncovered. The contributors use the ACA as a lens to examine more broadly how social welfare policies in a multiracial and multiethnic democracy purport to be inclusive while simultaneously embracing certain kinds of exclusions. Unequal Coverage concludes with an examination of the Affordable Care Act’s uncertain legacy under the new Presidential administration and considers what the future may hold for the American health care system. The book illustrates lessons learned and reveals how the law became a flashpoint for battles over inequality, fairness, and the role of government. More books on the health care debate
Автор: Marsden, W.E. Название: Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales ISBN: 071300178X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713001785 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Dalingwater Название: The Unequal Costs of Covid-19 on Well-being in Europe ISBN: 3031144244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783031144240 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implemented thereafter. In particular, it considers to what extent Covid-19 and measures taken to cope with the crisis have weakened economic and social structures across Europe and what effect this has had on people’s lives. While many countries in Europe have reallocated public funding to health care, provided support to SMEs, vulnerable populations and regions hit by the crisis, the wellbeing or welfare costs, considered broadly, are still significant. The authors' assessment thus goes beyond the subjective wellbeing discourse and evaluates to what extent structural weaknesses within economic, social and regional frameworks have deepened. The chapters discuss what policies are needed to address these weaknesses. the volume thus recognises that structural inequalities are a key driver of wellbeing. While there have been a number of publications on wellbeing during the pandemic, the original perspective in each chapter on inequalities and the European focus of this publication provide novel information and insights on the topic.
Автор: Kiss Название: Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights ISBN: 3319788922 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319788920 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduction. Unequal Accommodation, Ethnic Parallelism and Increasing Marginality; Tamбs Kiss. - 1. Minority Political Agency in Historical Perspective: Periodization and Key Problems; Nбndor Bбrdi & Tamбs Kiss. - 2. Unequal Accommodation: An Institutionalist Analysis of Ethnic Claim-Making and Bargaining; Tamбs Kiss, Tibor Torу Istvбn Gergő Szйkely. - 3. Language Use, Language Policy and Language Rights; Istvбn Horvбth Tibor Torу. - 4. Ethnic Parallelism: Political Program and Social Reality: An Introduction; Tamбs Kiss Dйnes Kiss. - 5. Hungarian Language Education: Legal Framework, Institutional Structure and Assessment of School Performances; Attila Z. Papp, Jбnos Mбrton, Istvбn Gergő Szйkely Gergő Barna. - 6. Churches and Religious Life; Dйnes Kiss. - 7. Media Consumption and the Hungarian Language: Media in Transylvania; Tamбs Kiss. - 8. Economy and Ethnicity in Transylvania; Zsombor Csata. - 9. Demographic Dynamic and Ethnic Classification: An Introduction to Societal Maco-Processes; Tamбs Kiss. - 10. A Changing System of Ethnic Stratification: The Social Positions of Transylvanian Hungarians; Tamбs Kiss. - 11. Assimilation and Boundary Reinforcement: Ethnic Exogamy and Socialization in Ethnically Mixed Families; Tamбs Kiss.
Bartels's acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy--now fully revised and expanded
The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of the Obama era. One presents the Great Recession as a "stress test" of the American political system by analyzing the 2008 election and the impact of Barack Obama's "New New Deal" on the economic fortunes of the rich, middle class, and poor. The other assesses the politics of inequality in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the 2012 election, and the partisan gridlock of Obama's second term. Larry Bartels offers a sobering account of the barriers to change posed by partisan ideologies and the political power of the wealthy. He also provides new analyses of tax policy, partisan differences in economic performance, the struggle to raise the minimum wage, and inequalities in congressional representation.
President Obama identified inequality as "the defining challenge of our time." Unequal Democracy is the definitive account of how and why our political system has failed to rise to that challenge. Now more than ever, this is a book every American needs to read.
Автор: Sheehan, Maura , Tomlinson, Mike Название: The Unequal Unemployed ISBN: 1138364401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138364400 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3520.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1999, this volume is about unemployment and discrimination, with a focus on Northern Ireland and its debate over patterns of inequality between unemployed Catholics and Protestants.
Описание: Do schools work differently in deprived and privileged neighbourhoods? Based on interviews and ethnographic data from two primary schools in Berlin, Germany, it shows how local social compositions, symbolic meanings of urban areas, and neighbourhood-based policy interventions structure schools.
Автор: Raquel Sosa Elizaga Название: Facing An Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology ISBN: 152643556X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526435569 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 25819.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edited volume explores significant themes in modern, global sociology, including inequality, structures of power, conceptions of justice and sustainable futures.
Автор: Hitlin, Steven; Harkness, Sarah K. Название: Unequal Foundations ISBN: 0190465409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190465407 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Unequal Foundations offers readers a novel theory and an original use of cross-cultural data to assert that the level of economic inequality in a society is reflected in the emotional experience of its members.
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