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Class and Time-Based Subjective Inequality: Wealth Forecast book cover

1st Edition

Class and Time-Based Subjective Inequality Wealth Forecast

By Nicolas Duvoux Copyright 2025
130 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Challenging the inference in social science that taking subjectivity into account somehow conflicts with approaches that emphasize the reality of the material conditions of existence, this book shows how subjective perceptions of one’s future can help to capture class and inequality, considering the extent to which material conditions (such as wealth, income, and power) are revealed by subjective... Read more

“Feels like” economic opportunities: How subjectivity reveals social inequality

1. The projective synthesis

2. A science of subjectivity

3. Subjective inequality in Bourdieu’s theory of time

4. A confiscated future for the working classes

5. Social classes amidst resurging wealth inequalities

6. Giving money, gaining power: Philanthropists striving for eternal legacy

Conclusion: Framing subjectivity within context

Biography

Nicolas Duvoux is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 8, France, Full Professor at the Geneva School of Social Sciences, Switzerland, and Director of the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy (GCP). His research focuses on issues of social solidarity, poverty, philanthropy, and social policy. He is the author of L’autonomie des assistés: Sociologie des politiques d’insertion (2009), Le Nouvel Age de la solidarité: Pauvreté, précarité et politiques publiques (2012), and Les oubliés du rêve américain: Philanthropie, État et pauvreté urbaine aux États-Unis (2015).

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