Revised edition of the author's Understanding inequalities, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-339) and index.

Chapter 1: Introduction Part 1Chapter 2: Class Chapter 3: Gender Chapter 4: Ethnicity Chapter 5: International migration Chapter 6: Disability Part 2Chapter 7: Youth and age Chapter 8: Education Chapter 9: Income, wealth and poverty Chapter 10: Health Chapter 11: Housing and geography Chapter 12: Conclusions: Inequality, Intersectionality and Diversity

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Science in Psychology

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