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Accumulated Advantage and Disadvantage: the Role of Wealth

Hills, John and Cunliffe, Jack (2016) Accumulated Advantage and Disadvantage: the Role of Wealth. In: Dean, Hartley and Platt, Lucinda, eds. Social Advantage and Disadvantage. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-873708-7. (doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737070.003.0008) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:54100)

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Abstract

Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates or fails to prevent social divisions or injustices. This book captures the sense in which any conceptualisation of disadvantage is concerned with the consequences of processes by which relative advantage has been selectively conferred or attained. It considers how inequalities and social divisions are created as much by the concentration of advantage among the best-off as by the systematic disadvantage of the worst-off.

The book critically discusses - from a global and a UK perspective - a spectrum of conceptual frameworks and ideas relating to poverty, social exclusion, capability deprivation, rights violations, social immobility, and human or social capital deficiency. It addresses advantage and disadvantage from a life course perspective through discussions of family and childhood, education, work, old age, and the dynamics of income and wealth. It considers cross-cutting divides that are implicated in the social construction and maintenance of advantage and disadvantage, including divisions premised on gender, 'race', ethnicity, migration and religion, neighbourhood and the experience of crime.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737070.003.0008
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Jack Cunliffe
Date Deposited: 10 Feb 2016 14:03 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 12:20 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/54100 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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