The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-16351-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.

Inequalities are not static, easily measurable, and essentially quantifiable circumstances of life. They are processes which impact on individuals throughout the life course, interacting with each other, accumulating, attenuating, reproducing, or distorting themselves along the way. The chapters in this handbook examine various types of inequality, such as economic, gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities, and analyse how these inequalities manifest themselves within different aspects of society, including health, education, and the family, at multiple levels and dimensions. The handbook also tackles the global COVID-19 pandemic and its striking impact on the production and intensification of inequalities.

The interdisciplinary life course approach utilised in this handbook combines quantitative and qualitative methods to bridge the gap between theory and practice and offer strategies and principles for identifying and tackling issues of inequality. This book will be indispensable for students and researchers as well as activists and policy makers interested in understanding and eradicating the processes of production, reproduction, and perpetuation of inequalities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nico, Magda

Pollock, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1– Inequality as process

Introduction - Doing Inequalities over the life course

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

- Inequality across time: social change, biography and the life course

Dale Dannefer, Chengming Han, and Jiao Yu

- Poverty and economic insecurity in the life course

Leen Vandecasteele, Dario Spini, Nicolas Sommet, and Felix Bühlmann

- Inequality as process

Elisabetta Ruspini

- Life course inequality and policy: a focus on child well-being

Gary Pollock, Jessica Ozan, and Haridhan Goswami

Section 2– Assessing inequalities: complementary methods

Introduction - Imagining the understanding of inequalities

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

- Studying social inequality over the life course in modern societies. The methodological importance of life course studies

Gwendolin J. Blossfeld and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

- The analysis of inequality in life trajectories: an integration of two approaches

Danilo Bolano and André Berchtold

- Evolution of COVID-19 lethality and geographically contrasting socio-economic factors in Brazil: a multilevel perspective

Joseph F. Hair, Jr, Luiz Paulo Fávero, and Rafael de Freitas Souza

- Health inequalities across the life course: theories, statistical pitfalls, and the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Fabian Kratz

Section 3 – The social stratification of health

Introduction - The inherent longitudinality of health inequalities

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

- Mental health inequalities

Jane D. McLeod and Max E. Coleman

- How an analysis of lifespan inequality can contribute to our understanding of life course inequalities

Alyson van Raalte

- Two centuries of inequalities: disability and partnership in Sweden

Lotta Vikström, Kateryna Karhina, and Johan Junkka

- The Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and the life course

Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Laura Bernardi, Juho Härkönen, Toni C. Antonucci, Pearl A. Dykstra, Jutta Heckhausen, Diana Kuh, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Phyllis Moen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Clara H. Mulder, Timothy M. Smeeding, Tanja Van Der Lippe, Gunhild O. Hagestad, Martin Kohli, René Levy, Ingrid Schoon, and Elizabeth Thomson

Section 4 – Economic and wealth inequalities

Introduction - The challenge of complexity in the analysis of economic inequalities

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

- Concepts of social stratification—static and dynamic perspectives

Steffen Hillmert

- Optimising the use of measures of social stratification in research with intersectional and longitudinal analytical priorities

Paul Lambert and Camilla Barnett

- Stagnation and inequality in a historical view: a comment on Piketty's analysis of capitalism and the Portuguese case

Francisco Louçã

- Things can’t only get better: inequality and democracy over a life-span

Kevin Albertson and Richard Whittle

Section 5 – Youth, education and transition to adulthood

Introduction - Half way down the stairs – somewhere else instead

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

- Expansion and improved permeability of post-secondary education in Germany: consequences for social inequalities in educational attainment

Nicole Tieben and Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt

- Educational expansion across cohorts and over the life course: an international comparison of (rapid) educational expansion and the consequences of the differentiation of tertiary education

Pia Blossfeld, Gwendolin J. Blossfeld, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

- Class in successive life courses in Britain since 1945

Ken Roberts

- Mapping young Norwegians’ self-projects and future orientations

Ingunn Marie Eriksen and Kari Stefansen

Section 6 – Family and linked lives

Introduction - Families at the heart of linked (lives and) inequalities

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

- Care inequality in later life in ageing societies: the unequal distribution of the intensity of informal support in Europe

Marco Albertini and Riccardo Prandini

- The apple, the tree and the forest: family histories as radars of social mobility and inequalities

Magda Nico and Maria Gilvania Valdivino Silva

- Family formation and social inequalities. A life course perspective

Stefano Cantalini

- Farewell’s children: using the life course perspective to understand female late fertility Rosalina Pisco Costa

Section 7 – Gender inequalities

Introduction - Gender inequalities: time-varying and trajectories

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

- The mutual constitution of gendered and sexualised inequalities in life courses

José Fernando Serrano-Amaya

- Gender trajectories and the production of inequalities from a life course perspective

Sofia Aboim and Pedro Vasconcelos

- Inequalities in work and the intersectional life course

Phyllis Moen and Mahala Miller

- LGBTIQ+ life course inequalities and queer temporalities

Maria do Mar Varela and Yener Bayramoglu

Section 8 – Racial and ethnic inequalities

Introduction - The weight of structure on the skin

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

- The centrality of race to inequality across the world-system

Manuela Boatca

- A life course approach to understanding ethnic health inequalities in later life: an example using the United Kingdom as national context

Sarah Stopforth, Laia Bécares, James Nazroo, and Dharmi Kapadia

- The inequalities of empire: comparative perspectives

Cátia Antunes and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo

- How the COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the migrant-inequality narrative

Ferdinand C. Mukumbang

Über Autor(innen)

Magda Nico is a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. She is currently coordinating a project on the importance and dynamics of ‘linked lives’ within families. Her research interests include life course theory and methods, family histories, social mobility, and the processes of inequalities.

Gary Pollock is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He currently coordinates the European Research Council-funded Cohort Community Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe (COORDINATE) project and has previously led the European Cohort Development (EDCP) and Measuring Youth Well-Being (MYWEB) projects. His research interests include the design and analysis of survey data on children and young people and their life trajectories, particularly using longitudinal techniques.