Unequal Conflict

Author : Anthony R. DiMaggio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000258455

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Unequal America by Anthony R. DiMaggio Pdf

This book examines Americans and their beliefs about the class divide in the United States. It argues that Americans’ beliefs about class and the economic divide develop through a multistep process. Economic affluence influences the development of worldview, measured in terms of ideology, partisanship, and self-identified class consciousness. Class consciousness in turn affects how people look at political and economic issues. This book is intended for scholars and students at every level who study inequality from a political, economic, or sociological position, along with general readers with a growing interest in and awareness of the effects of inequality on our democracy, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the resulting economic contraction, and the protests over racial injustice erupting throughout the world in 2020.

Author : F. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230582729

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Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict by F. Stewart Pdf

Drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, this book explores how horizontal inequalities - ethnic, religious or racial - are a source of violent conflict and how political, economic and cultural status inequalities have contributed. Policies to reverse inequality would reduce these risks.

Author : Lars-Erik Cederman,Kristian Skrede Gleditsch,Halvard Buhaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107017429

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Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War by Lars-Erik Cederman,Kristian Skrede Gleditsch,Halvard Buhaug Pdf

This book argues that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate grievances that in turn can motivate civil war. Lars-Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Halvard Buhaug offer a theoretical approach that highlights ethnonationalism and how the relationship between group identities and inequalities are fundamental for successful mobilization to resort to violence. Although previous research highlighted grievances as a key motivation for political violence, contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed grievances as irrelevant, emphasizing instead the role of opportunities. This book shows that the alleged non-results for grievances in previous research stemmed primarily from atheoretical measures, typically based on individual data. The authors develop new indicators of political and economic exclusion at the group level, and show that these exert strong effects on the risk of civil war. They provide new analyses of the effects of transnational ethnic links and the duration of civil wars, and extended case discussions illustrating causal mechanisms.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Anthony DiMaggio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000258370

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Unequal America by Anthony DiMaggio Pdf

This book examines Americans and their beliefs about the class divide in the United States. It argues that Americans’ beliefs about class and the economic divide develop through a multistep process. Economic affluence influences the development of worldview, measured in terms of ideology, partisanship, and self-identified class consciousness. Class consciousness in turn affects how people look at political and economic issues. This book is intended for scholars and students at every level who study inequality from a political, economic, or sociological position, along with general readers with a growing interest in and awareness of the effects of inequality on our democracy, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the resulting economic contraction, and the protests over racial injustice erupting throughout the world in 2020.

Author : Canice Chucks Osuji
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781543490374

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Inequality Tension and Conflict by Canice Chucks Osuji Pdf

Inequality is making the whole human race sick, be it inequality of income, race, religion, gender, tribe or wealth. It has become a cause of tension and confl ict around the world. Bernard Shaw says that only idiots favour inequality of income, which is their only chance of eminence. Plutarch said that inequality is an ailment that means that it has a cure. Th is is exactly what the book tries to do by calling all republics and individuals that support inequality to desist from it. Its eradication would ensure a healthy society, devoid of tension, violence and persistent confl ict. Treating others the way we want to be treated will be one of the most credible solutions to reduce inequality in our society and the global stage.

Author : Harold R. Kerbo
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003902090

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Social Stratification and Inequality by Harold R. Kerbo Pdf

Author : Pasuk Phongpaichit,Chris Baker
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814722001

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Unequal Thailand by Pasuk Phongpaichit,Chris Baker Pdf

Extreme inequalities in income,wealth and power lie behind Thailand’s political turmoil. What are the sources of this inequality? Why does it persist, or even increase when the economy grows? How can it be addressed? The contributors to this important study—Thai scholars, reformers and civil servants—shed light on the many dimensions of inequality in Thailand, looking beyond simple income measures to consider land ownership, education, finance, business structures and politics. The contributors propose a series of reforms in taxation, spending and institutional reform that can address growing inequality. Inequality is among the biggest threats to social stability in Southeast Asia, and this close study of a key Southeast Asian country will be relevant to regional policy-makers, economists and business decision-makers, as well as students of oligarchy and inequality more generally.

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691184319

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The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel Pdf

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling—mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues—have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent—and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.

Author : Karen F. Parker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814767856

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Unequal Crime Decline by Karen F. Parker Pdf

"[Parker's] analysis is not only a thorough review of the debate on the link between violent crime and unemployment; it is an exploration into the complex interwining between ethnicity, gender, population composition and political economy in violent crime...a hugely rewarding read.---British Journal of Criminology "The crime decline that began in the early 1990s and ran for more than a decade is the largest sustained drop rates ever recorded in the United States---and yet this remarkable event has gone largely unheralded. Parker illuminates this unexplored terrain by shining a light on the unevenness of the decline across key subgroups defined especially by race, gender and class. Her book is required reading for anyone interested in the make up of this fascinating piece of criminology history."---Gary Lafree, author of Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America "Parker's book is a significant achievement, merging sophisticated quantitatives techniques and analysis with sociological insights about structural changes in our cities that also affect urban crime rates. This is a provocative and stimulating book which should prompt criminologists to more carefully deconstruct crime patterns and trends by race and gender." Crime in most urban areas fell during the 1990s. While the decline has been well-documented, few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime decline and which are still on the frontlines of violence---and why that might be. In Unequal Crime Decline, Karen F. Parker presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline. Looking particularly at the past three decades and the shifts that have taken place, Parker offers original insight into which trends have declined and why. Unequal Crime Decline is a comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated look at the relationship among race, urban inequality, and violence in the years leading up to and following America's landmark crime drop.

Author : Ms. Era Dabla-Norris,Ms. Kalpana Kochhar,Mrs. Nujin Suphaphiphat,Mr. Frantisek Ricka,Evridiki Tsounta
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513547435

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Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality by Ms. Era Dabla-Norris,Ms. Kalpana Kochhar,Mrs. Nujin Suphaphiphat,Mr. Frantisek Ricka,Evridiki Tsounta Pdf

This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some common drivers being the skill premium associated with technical change and globalization, weakening protection for labor, and lack of financial inclusion in developing countries. We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the top 20 percent results in lower growth—that is, when the rich get richer, benefits do not trickle down. This suggests that policies need to be country specific but should focus on raising the income share of the poor, and ensuring there is no hollowing out of the middle class. To tackle inequality, financial inclusion is imperative in emerging and developing countries while in advanced economies, policies should focus on raising human capital and skills and making tax systems more progressive.

Author : Anthony R Dimaggio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1003056857

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Unequal America by Anthony R Dimaggio Pdf

Author : George Ansalone
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739135150

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Exploring Unequal Achievement in the Schools by George Ansalone Pdf

One of the most disturbing problems in American education today is the unequal achievement of children in schools. Few problems have sparked greater concern than the issue of why students from different social origins differ so significantly in their academic performance. This book explores the role played by families and schools in this troubling problem. It employs a social constructionist approach in considering how ascribed characteristics (race, gender, and class) intersect with the daily interactions of teachers and students in classrooms and with the educational practices and structures within schools (tracking, testing, and teacher expectations) to play an exacting role in the construction of success or failure. It suggests that the new student identity that begins to emerge as a result of these processes provides a self-fulfilling prophesy of expectation and belief, which defines how students see themselves as learners and achievers. Through these practices, schooling becomes a crucial factor in the social construction of academic success. The author's final conclusion is inescapable: unequal achievement in school is largely a social construction. But it is a social construction facilitated both by student attributes including gender, race, and class and by the educational structures and policies some schools employ. Because of this undeniable fact, parents, educational practitioners, and policy makers must continue to investigate social policies and practices relative to student abilities and make every effort to understand how they may be related to achievement. Informed by research, they must endeavor to see this power inherent in schooling and the need to effect change.

Author : K. Seeta Prabhu,Sandhya S. Iyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199095667

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Human Development in an Unequal World by K. Seeta Prabhu,Sandhya S. Iyer Pdf

Human Development in an Unequal World deals with the twenty-first-century challenges of unstable economic growth and sustainability and the re-emergence of deprivations and inequalities in multiple realms. It argues that the broader perspective of human development is most suited in reorienting development towards a more equitable, sustainable, and empowering world. The authors discuss the concept and philosophy of the capabilities and human development approach, its measurement, the links between economic growth and human development, and the role of social sector policy, gender equality, and securing sustainability. In doing so, they analyse frameworks, processes, institutions, and actors, and weave together concepts, methods, and evidence from numerous developing countries. The chapters offer an integrated understanding of the importance of capabilities, freedoms, and human flourishing in the process of development. This volume calls for an approach that focuses on the humanness of development and brings people back to the centre stage—a phenomenon that has receded to the background in the neoliberal era.

Author : Coramae Richey Mann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0253207835

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Unequal Justice by Coramae Richey Mann Pdf

Examines the role of skin color and the possibility of legal inequities based on race in the Americn criminal justice system.