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Contents -- Foreword - Eric Wanner -- Introduction - Kathryn M. Neckerman -- Part I: Family and Neighborhood -- Chapter 1. The Uneven Spread of Single-Parent Families: What Do We Know? Where Do We Look for Answers? - David T. Ellwood and Christopher Jencks -- Chapter 2. Women's Education and Family Timing: Outcomes and Trends Associated with Age at Marriage and First Birth - Steven P. Martin -- Chapter 3. Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Children's Well-Being - Anne R. Pebley and Narayan Sastry -- Part II: Investment in Children

Introduces the different types of inequality. Argues the distinction between inequality and differences. Asks if social inequality is important or a mistaken ideal? Briefly looks at the different forms inequality takes.

"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the patterns and trends of socio-economic development and social division in Chinese society. It discusses the determinants, manifestations and consequences of social inequality in the last 40 years with particular regard to social mobility, educational attainment, social capital, health, labour market position, including employment (opportunity), career advancement, and earnings, housing, wealth and assets, urbanisation, social integration of migrant peasant workers into urban life, social protest and civic engagement, subjective well-being and subjective social status"--

"Japan was the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society, and throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, was viewed as an "all-middle-class society". However since the 1990s there have been growing doubts as to the real degree of social equality in Japan, particularly in the context of dramatic demographic shifts as the population ages whilst fertility levels continue to fall. This book compares Japan with America, Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Taiwan in order to determine whether inequality really is a social problem in Japan. With a focus on impact demographic shifts, Sawako Shirahase examines female labour market participation, income inequality among households with children, the state of the family, generational change, single person households and income distribution among the aged, and asks whether increasing inequality and is uniquely Japanese, or if it is a social problem common across all of the societies included in this study. Crucially, this book shows that Japan is distinctive not in terms of the degree of inequality in the society, but rather, in how acutely inequality is perceived. Further, the data shows that Japan differs from the other countries examined in terms of the gender gap in both the labour market and the family, and in inequality among single-person households - single men and women, including lifelong bachelors and spinsters - and also among single parent households, who pay a heavy price for having deviated from the expected pattern of life in Japan. Drawing on extensive empirical data, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Japanese culture and society, Japanese studies and social policy more generally"--

"Japan was the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society, and throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, was viewed as an "all-middle-class society". However since the 1990s there have been growing doubts as to the real degree of social equality in Japan, particularly in the context of dramatic demographic shifts as the population ages whilst fertility levels continue to fall. This book compares Japan with America, Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Taiwan in order to determine whether inequality really is a social problem in Japan. With a focus on impact demographic shifts, Sawako Shirahase examines female labour market participation, income inequality among households with children, the state of the family, generational change, single person households and income distribution among the aged, and asks whether increasing inequality and is uniquely Japanese, or if it is a social problem common across all of the societies included in this study. Crucially, this book shows that Japan is distinctive not in terms of the degree of inequality in the society, but rather, in how acutely inequality is perceived. Further, the data shows that Japan differs from the other countries examined in terms of the gender gap in both the labour market and the family, and in inequality among single-person households - single men and women, including lifelong bachelors and spinsters - and also among single parent households, who pay a heavy price for having deviated from the expected pattern of life in Japan. Drawing on extensive empirical data, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Japanese culture and society, Japanese studies and social policy more generally"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Rethinking Inequality -- 2. White Sociology, Black Struggle -- 3. Female Manual Workers, Fatalism and the Reinforcement of Inequalities -- 4. The Generation Game: Playing by the Rules -- 5. Aging and Inequality: Consumer Culture and the New Middle Age -- 6. Egalitarianism and Social Inequality in Scotland -- 7. Inequality of Access to Political Television: The Case of the General Election of 1979 -- 8. Classes, Class Fractions and Monetarism -- 9. Moral Economy and the Welfare State -- 10. Towards a Celebration of Difference(s): Notes for a sociology of a possible everyday future

'This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive perspectives on a set of issues that are - despite the claims of some influential commentators - still central to the sociological enterprise and, indeed to political life.'. Roger Burrows, University of York. 'With theoretical ease and the use of telling exam

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Four propositions regarding democracy & social inequality are proffered & defended: (1) the very idea of democracy is inevitably intertwined with social inequality, (2) the rise of democracy cannot be understood without looking at class inequality, (3) democracy tends to have an equalizing (leveling) momentum, & (4) if democracy has a chance of deepening (ie, with greater participation & reduced inequalities), it is likely to be opposed, contained, or aborted. A definition of "really existing democracy" is suggested & the actual existence of such democracies in the contemporary world system is analyzed. It is concluded that, though democracy may seem "safe" in most Western societies, it is actually under great threat; in the US, this is evidenced by declining political participation (especially among the lower classes & minorities) & an increase in the impact of moneyed groups on politics. K. Hyatt Stewart