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How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility
Gideon Calder
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Description for How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility
Paperback. In the UK, as in other rich countries, the 'playing-field' is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life raise fundamental questions of social justice and calls for a rethink of what equality of opportunity means. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 131 x 199 x 12. Weight in Grams: 164.
In the UK, as in other rich countries, the `playing-field' is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life - from the right to inherit income, to the reading of bedtime stories - raise fundamental questions of social justice. Taking fairness seriously, it argues, means rethinking what equality of opportunity means.
In the UK, as in other rich countries, the `playing-field' is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life - from the right to inherit income, to the reading of bedtime stories - raise fundamental questions of social justice. Taking fairness seriously, it argues, means rethinking what equality of opportunity means.
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
163g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447331537
SKU
V9781447331537
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Ref
99-50
About Gideon Calder
Gideon Calder is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Social Policy at Swansea University. The author or editor of eight books, he is co-editor of the journal Ethics and Social Welfare, and of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children.
Reviews for How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility
A must for everyone interested in making the UK a fair, just and rewarding society... Gideon Calder asks difficult questions and offers thoughtful and thought-provoking ideas. ?? Kate Pickett, University of York. Reveals the role of families in reproducing inequalities and shows what's unjust about this - a brilliant critique of popular thinking about social mobility and meritocracy. ... Read more