Stratification : social division and inequality
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
1 online resource (vi, 283 pages) : illustrations
9780203339367, 9780415281782, 9780415281799, 9781134460922, 9781134460878, 9781134460915, 9781280156168, 0203339363, 0415281784, 0415281792, 1134460929, 1134460872, 1134460910, 1280156163
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Stratification and social distance
Images of inequality
Founding ideas
Sins of the fathers
Name, rank and number : measuring stratification
Racialised relations
A woman's place
Culture and anarchy
Social space
Someone like me
Hierarchy makes you sick
Movements in space
'Us' and 'them'
Reproducing hierarchy
English