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Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World

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Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe

Over the last ten years the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts, revealing profound splits in society. These splits are represented in terms of an opposition between those countries on the losing and those on the winning sides of globalisation. Inequalities beyond those nations are critically absent from the debate.

Based on major European statistical surveys, the new research in this work presents a map of social classes inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. It reveals the common features of the working class, the intermediate class and the privileged class in Europe. National features combine with social inequalities, through an account of the social distance between specific groups in nations in the north and in the countries of the south and east of Europe. The book ends with a reflection on the conditions that would be required for the emergence of a Europe-wide social movement.

Author: Hugree Cedric
Publisher: VERSO
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781788736282
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2020

Cedric Hugree, sociologist, studies social and educational inequalities in France and in Europe. He has coauthored Sociologie des classes populaires, a book that offers an overview of the scholars that created the ‘working class’ category in France.

Etienne Pénissat, sociologist, works on social classes and trade unionism. He has edited several books published by Agone, including Réprimer et domestiquer, Stratégies patronales and Porte-parole, militants et mobilisations.

Alexis Spire, sociologist, works on inequalities and tax compliance. He has published eight books, four of them single authored, including Etrangers à la carte and Résistance u l’impot, attachement u l’Etat, about social classes and taxation policies.

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