Image: ‘That Way’ Justin Baeder Kevin Gillan (University of Manchester) Among scholars of social movements there is presently a lively debate about [...]
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FOCUS: Social change in the 21st century: the new sociology of ‘wealth elites’
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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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