Author : Yannick Lemel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773522034
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Book Synopsis Changing Structures of Inequality by : Yannick Lemel
Download or read book Changing Structures of Inequality written by Yannick Lemel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international sociological community has engaged recently in a controversial discussion on social inequality. There is a vigourous debate on whether the traditional concepts of social class and social stratification are still useful. Some researchers argue that social classes still offer a key explanation to social inequalities while others challenge the long-standing tradition of class analysis. New approaches have been proposed to describe recent social changes in the stratification system: vanishing middle class, two-thirds societies, cosmographic inequality, and classless society, among others.