Income inequality
The following short video provides a really nice presentation of the gap between perceived and actual income inequality in the US .
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM[/youtube]
Latest books
- What is Sexual Capital?We thought of culture as a disinterested activity but sociologists showed long ago that it is a form of capital, used to gain power, status or money. This book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy […]Dana Kaplan, Eva Illouz
- What is Sexual Capital?We thought of culture as a disinterested activity but sociologists showed long ago that it is a form of capital, used to gain power, status or money. This book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy […]Dana Kaplan, Eva Illouz
- The Invention of the 'Underclass'At century’s close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban “underclass.” Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were exported to the United Kingdom and continental Europe and agitated the international study of exclusion in […]Loic Wacquant
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