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FOCUS: Social change in the 21st century: the new sociology of ‘wealth elites’

FOCUS: Social change in the 21st century: the new sociology of ‘wealth elites’

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Image: Antilia Residence, Mumbai Mike Savage (LSE)   This issue of Discover Society – edited by Mike Savage and John Holmwood - celebrates [...]

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Viewpoint: The rich – the elephant in the sociology room

Viewpoint: The rich – the elephant in the sociology room

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Photo by Andrew Sayer   Andrew Sayer We simply cannot afford to ignore the rich, given their extraordinary rise over the last 30 [...]

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On the Frontline: Family Offices and the lives of the super-rich

On the Frontline: Family Offices and the lives of the super-rich

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Image: Inwardsmarine (Wikipedia Commons) Luna Glucksberg  (Goldsmiths, University of London)   “So, I was based in Switzerland near Zurich, and as part of [...]

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Policy Briefing: Tackling inequality on the road to a just society

Policy Briefing: Tackling inequality on the road to a just society

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Simon Willis (The Young Foundation)   Inequality is an urgent and complex problem.  It is deeply entrenched in all areas of life. [...]

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Piketty’s Pessimistic Bestseller: Economic Inequality and the Twilight of Democracy

Piketty’s Pessimistic Bestseller: Economic Inequality and the Twilight of Democracy

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Robert J. Antonio (University of Kansas)   In last spring’s and early summer’s unlikely bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century,  Thomas Piketty [...]

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Why sociologists should research the increase in top income and wealth inequality

Why sociologists should research the increase in top income and wealth inequality

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Katharina Hecht (LSE)   The top 1 percent of income earners in the UK accounted for as much as 15 percent of [...]

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Are Managers the New Barbarians Destroying Local and National Societies?

Are Managers the New Barbarians Destroying Local and National Societies?

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Alberta Andreotti (University of Milan-Bicocca), Patrick Le Galès, (CNRS-Sciences-Po Paris) and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes (IPP-CSIC)   Amused by his former students at [...]

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In the Shadows: How Unaccountable Elites Corrupt Democracy

In the Shadows: How Unaccountable Elites Corrupt Democracy

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Janine R. Wedel (George Mason University)   Over the past decade-plus, I have been charting the emergence of a new type of [...]

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(Re)producing the ‘working rich’ in London’s financial district

(Re)producing the ‘working rich’ in London’s financial district

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Image: FreeFoto.com   Sarah Hall (University of Nottingham) Some of the most enduring images of the 2007-8 financial crisis were pictures of newly [...]

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A city in thrall to capital? London, money-power and elites

A city in thrall to capital? London, money-power and elites

  • By discoversociety
  • December 01, 2014

Photo: Hang Kei-Ho Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield) and Roger Burrows (Goldsmiths, University of London)   The usual preamble doesn’t apply to this [...]

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