This article reviews the sociological and economic literature on intergenerational mobility.
Findings on social class, occupational status, earnings, and income mobility are discussed …

Social class inequalities in health and mortality have become an increasingly prominent
topic of study among sociologists, demographers, economists, and social epidemiologists …

In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular
(and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and …

Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book
engages with the question of whether the digital divide simply extends traditional forms of …

Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of
financial inclusion—dubbed" banking the unbanked"—which aimed to extend credit to black …

In this ground breaking new book David Block proposes a new working definition of social
class in applied linguistics. Traditionally, research on language and identity has focused on …

This article examines the stratifying effects of economic classifications. We argue that in the
neoliberal era market institutions increasingly use actuarial techniques to split and sort …

Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The
revised edition of this popular book explains why it is so important to understand class and …

Max Weber is one of the world's most important social scientists, but he is also one of the
most notoriously difficult to understand. This revised, updated, and expanded edition of The …

In 1999, as part of its Statistical Harmonization Programme, Eurostat (the Statistical Office of
the European Com munities) commissioned an Expert Group to make recommendations for …