Stratification: Social Division and Inequality by Wendy Bottero (English) Paperb

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This book offers an exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, looking at how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference.

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Stratification: Social Division and Inequality offers a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, looking at how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference. Exploring the topics of assortative mating; social capital; friendship networks and cultural identity; the book examines how hierarchy affects our tastes and leisure time activities, and who we choose (and hang on to) as our friends and partners. This book: Introduces debates on stratification by exploring its effect on everyday social relations Relates class inequalities to broader processes of social division and cultural differentiation, exploring the associational and cultural aspects of hierarchy Explores how groups draw on social, economic and cultural resources, using cultural 'cues', to admit some and exclude others from their social circle, to examine the relationship between hierarchical differentiation and social divisions Explores new theoretical approaches to stratification: drawing on cultural theories of class, social interaction approaches, and research on differential a

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Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference. Exploring the topics of assortative mating; social capital; friendship networks and cultural identity; the book examines how hierarchy affects our tastes and leisure time activities, and who we choose (and hang on to) as our friends and partners. This book: * introduces debates on stratification by exploring its effect on everyday social relations * relates class inequalities to broader processes of social division and cultural differentiation, exploring the associational and cultural aspects of hierarchy * explores how groups draw on social, economic and cultural resources, using cultural 'cues', to admit some and exclude others from their social circle * explores new theoretical approaches to stratification: drawing on cultural theories of class, social interaction approaches, and research on differential association The book has a novel and fresh new way of looking at a well-established area in sociology - social stratification.

Author Biography

Wendy Bottero is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Images of Inequality 3. Founding Ideas 4. Sins of the Fathers 5. Name, Rank and Number 6. Race and Ethnicity 7. Gender 8. Fragmentation, Culture and Anarchy 9. Social Space 10. Someone Like Me 11. Hierarchy Makes You Sick 12. Movements in Space 13. Us and Them 14. Conclusion

Details ISBN0415281792 Author Wendy Bottero Short Title STRATIFICATION Language English ISBN-10 0415281792 ISBN-13 9780415281799 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 305 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Social Division and Inequality Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Birth 1965 Pages 292 Affiliation University of Southampton, UK DOI 10.1604/9780415281799 UK Release Date 2004-12-23 AU Release Date 2004-12-23 NZ Release Date 2004-12-23 Illustrations 5 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2004 Publication Date 2004-12-23 Alternative 9780415281782 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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