| Description |
xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Body, Society and Inequality: 2. Inequality and the sociology of the body -- 3. Sick bodies and inequality: class, mortality and morbidity -- 4. Gendered, aged and disabled bodies -- Part II. The Self, Society and Understandings of Inequality: 5. Experiencing the inequality of social resources -- 6. Experiencing the inequality of cultural difference -- 7. Experiencing the inequality of life chances -- Part III. Politics, Society and Inequality: 8. Collective identity, politics and the myth of egalitarianism -- 9. Citizenship, nation building and political struggles for equality -- 10. The contested nature of inequality in contemporary Australia. -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Body, Society and Inequality: 2. Inequality and the sociology of the body -- 3. Sick bodies and inequality: class, mortality and morbidity -- 4. Gendered, aged and disabled bodies -- Part II. The Self, Society and Understandings of Inequality: 5. Experiencing the inequality of social resources -- 6. Experiencing the inequality of cultural difference -- 7. Experiencing the inequality of life chances -- Part III. Politics, Society and Inequality: 8. Collective identity, politics and the myth of egalitarianism -- 9. Citizenship, nation building and political struggles for equality -- 10. The contested nature of inequality in contemporary Australia |
| Summary |
Seeks to analyse and explain inequality, challenging traditional conceptions and providing a new critical perspective. The authors provide a comprehensive historical account of inequality, and show how that account no longer adequately explains the new and different forms experienced in recent decades |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-291) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Social classes -- Australia.
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Equality -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 2001-
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Australia -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585 -- 2001-
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Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311
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Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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Australia -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585 -- 21st century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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Australia -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100478
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| Author |
Lewins, Frank W. (Frank William)
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White, Kevin Neil Stewart
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| LC no. |
2002038854 |
| ISBN |
0521818915 hardback |
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0521524423 paperback |
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