UID:
almafu_9959238316102883
Format:
1 online resource (292 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-86008-424-9
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1-134-46091-0
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1-134-46092-9
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1-280-15616-3
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0-203-33936-3
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-28178-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-28179-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203339367
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