Social Inequality Books

New and Published Books

1. Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment

   By Sheldon Ekland-Olson

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
4. Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries

   New Analytical Approaches

   Edited by Wim Naude, Amelia Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray

   In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty. New approaches in development economics have in recent years started from the premise...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Poverty and Development in China

   Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment

   By Caizhen Lu

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen’s...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Human Rights

   Edited by Thomas Cushman

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
7. Cultural Studies and Anti-Consumerism

   Edited by Sam Binkley, Jo Littler

   Anti-consumerism has become a conspicuous part of contemporary activism and popular culture, from ‘culture jams’ and actions against Esso and Starbucks, through the downshifting and voluntary simplicity movements, the rise of ethical consumption and organic and the high profile of films and books...

   Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge
8. Aid and Inequality in Kenya

   British Development Assistance to Kenya

   By Gerald Holtham, Arthur Hazelwood

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   This reissue, first published in 1976, considers the rapid rate of economic growth in Kenya, combined with its apparent political stability, to determine whether or not this is indeed a case of ‘growth without development’ and, if so, where the responsibility for aid lies in this situation. The...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. The OPEC Fund for International Development

   The Formative Years

   By Ibrahim F. I. Shihata

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   The OPEC countries’ collective policy is to offer external development assistance free from political or commercial ties, with the purpose of expressing the solidarity of one group of developing countries with the rest. Since 1976, this policy has found vigorous practical expression in the...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Economics of Aid

    By J. M. Healey

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    First published in 1971, this reissue considers the main aspects of foreign aid to developing countries in terms of economic concepts and principles. The author gives an economic definition of aid and considers the motives for giving aid and the principles on which it may be allocated. He looks at...

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge