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AbstractIn this article, I review recent research on the relationship between social inequalities and disasters, focusing on the areas of social vulnerability to disaster and social inequalities in disaster recovery. I highlight how race, class, and gender structure the disaster experience such that marginalized populations are most vulnerable to the negative consequences of a disaster and face significant challenges in recovery. Then, I discuss the next steps for advancing disaster studies. First, scholars should work to develop improved methodologies for disaster research. Second, theoretical work on defining, theorizing, and classifying disasters is needed. Finally, the field should incorporate other intersectional dimensions of social inequality into the study of disasters.

This essay offers a reading of the social inequalities in health through the Health Related Stigma perspective, explaining its different meanings and its deeper implications in the lives of those affected by stigma.

Race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States / Mary C. Waters -- The 'language of race', identity options, and 'belonging' in the Quebec context / Micheline Labelle -- Race and ethnicity in France / Riva Kastoryano -- Racisms, ethnicities, and British nation-making / Liviu Popoviciu and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill -- Working poor, working hard: trajectories at the bottom of the American labor market / Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon -- Class and social inequalities in Portugal: from class structure to working-class practices on the shop floor / Elisio Estanque -- Understanding class inequality in Australia / Bill Martin and Judy Wajcman -- Talking about class in Britain / Fiona Devine -- Research on gender stratification in the US / Christine L. Williams, Patti A. Giuffre, and Kristen A. Dellinger -- The Japanese paradox: women's voices of fulfillment in the face of inequalities / Yuko Ogasawara -- Catching up? changing inequalities of gender at work and in the family in the UK / Harriet Bradley -- Gender and work-related inequalities in Finland / Paivi Korvajarvi.

AbstractThis article reviews recent research on the relationship between sport and social inequalities, focusing on gender, race, nation and social mobility. Through an engagement with these areas of research, we highlight how sport reflects and reinforces broader hierarchical structures; how it serves as a site for both inclusion and exclusion, but in ways that work unevenly; and how sport is ultimately a site for social reproduction of hierarchy and social stratification. We argue that the gender, racial and national hierarchies that sport is embedded within interact to largely prevent sport from being a site for social mobility, despite popular myths to the contrary.

The studies of global social and economic inequalities in social sciences that go beyond "methodological nationalism" are recent but have older roots. The first theories to reflect on the global and trans-regional interconnections and asymmetric regional developments within the capitalist system can be traced back to a Marxian tradition. These theories were critical to the conventional approach to social inequalities (hegemonic in the Western European and US academic centers in the 20th century) restricted to within nation-state boundaries. However, during the last three decades, several new approaches have emerged to capture the construction of social inequalities within the context of transnationalization, which extend beyond defined political units such as the nation-state. Transnationalization is creating a new challenge to social scientists to review critically their premises related to their reference units and to study social inequalities by focusing on social, economic, cultural and political interdependencies from the global perspective. This paper will focus specifically on four different approaches to global inequalities: (1) global and international comparative research; (2) the world-system perspective; (3) the transnational approach; and (4) the approach of entanglements. The aim is to draw a critical balance of these recent approaches, examine the central theoretical arguments and empirical findings, identify shortcomings and make suggestions for further research.