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Social Inequality Louise Warwick-Booth

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Zusammenfassung

Now in an updated second edition, Social Inequality continues to be an essential guide to understanding social inequality and stratification, helping readers to understand what inequality is, how it is defined, explored and measured, and what the key social divisions are at both global and national level.

Social Inequality Zusammenfassung

Social Inequality Louise Warwick-Booth

Now in an updated second edition, Social Inequality continues to be an essential guide to understanding social inequality and stratification, helping readers to understand what inequality is, how it is defined, explored and measured, and what the key social divisions are at both global and national level.

The new edition includes:

  • A global context, offering a comparative discussion on social inequalities, policy, and justice.
  • NEW CHAPTER: 'Youth and Age' discusses age as a social construct and form of division.
  • NEW CHAPTER: 'Health and disability' defines health inequalities and analyses the current thinkers on health inequalities and their proposed solutions.
  • Updated coverage of sexuality and transgender issues.
  • Enhanced discussion of migration and asylum seeking.

Social Inequality Bewertungen

Social Inequality provides a clear and concise overview of social inequality and the key social divisions in today's contemporary global world. This is essential reading for our health students with key concepts defined and discussed in an an accessible manner. An excellent text. -- Peter Leadbetter, Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead in Applied Health & Social Care, Edge Hill University
An engaging and comprehensive guide to the multifaceted dimensions of contemporary social inequality. This excellent book will serve as an ideal introductory text for students of social policy, sociology, social work and politics or indeed anyone who is concerned with social injustice. -- Lisa Matera, Communities and Partnerships Project Officer & Part time tutor on Child and Families Foundation Degree, University of Leeds.
The extensive range of issues explored in the book in relation to social inequality, including the comprehensive analysis of each particular social division, as well as the inclusion of tasks, case studies and key points in each chapter, makes Social Inequality a very recommendable and pedagogical book on this salient and current topic. -- Maria Dalli, University of Valencia, Spain

Über Louise Warwick-Booth

Dr Louise Warwick-Booth is a sociologist with specific interests in health policy and social policy. She is a Reader and an Associate Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University. She teaches on a wide range of modules including sociology for health, policy and politics of health, research design, communities and community health as well as global health. Louise's research projects are diverse but focus on social inequalities and vulnerable populations such disadvantaged women experiencing abuse, Traveller and Gypsy communities and socially isolated older people. She evaluates interventions to improve the health of such vulnerable groups drawing upon various methods including feminist participatory approaches and creative tools in order to give people voice and actively participate in the research process. Her research has been used in practice to improve interventions during their delivery and in securing future funding for health promotion interventions in the voluntary sector. Louise has published several textbooks, including Global Health Studies (2018), Contemporary Health Studies: An Introduction 2nd Edition (2021, with colleagues), Creating Participatory Research (2021, with colleagues) as well as numerous journal articles.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 - What is social inequality? Chapter 2 - Social divisions and inequality: social class Chapter 3 - Social divisions and inequality: gender Chapter 4 - Social divisions and inequality: ethnicity Chapter 5 - Social divisions and inequality: youth and age Chapter 6 - Social divisions and inequality: health and disability Chapter 7 - Globalization and the global dimensions of inequality Chapter 8 - The global social policy arena and inequality Chapter 9- Social policy and its relationship to inequality: facilitator or potential solution? Chapter 10 - Solutions to inequality: How do we create a more equal global society?

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR011718309
9781526409577
1526409577
Social Inequality Louise Warwick-Booth
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Broschiert
SAGE Publications Ltd
2018-12-24
360
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