1st Edition
Middle-Class Couples A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage
By Stephen Edgell
Copyright 1980
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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When this book was originally published in 1980, sociologists had long held the view that the middle-class marriage in contemporary Britain was characterised by role desegregation and marital equality. Middle-Class Couples reported on research which provided a critical re-analysis of this orthodoxy. The book is a theoretically informed, empirical study which largely debunks many of the myths... Read more
Biography
Stephen Edgell is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford, UK.
Reviews of the original edition of The Inheritance of Inequality:
‘…an excellent study…makes a significant contribution to our general knowledge of the status attainment process.’ Kazuo Yamaguchi, American Journal of Sociology, Volume 88, No. 5.
