New sociological perspectives on inequality

Introduction to thematic series “new sociological perspectives on inequality”

Authors: Mike Savage and Chunling Li

Rewealthization in twenty-first century Western countries: the defining trend of the socioeconomic squeeze of the middle class

The wealth-to-income ratio (WIR) in many Western countries, particularly in Europe and North America, increased by a factor of two in the last three decades. This represents a defining empirical trend: a rewe...

Authors: Louis Chauvel, Eyal Bar Haim, Anne Hartung and Emily Murphy

Back to the past: gains and losses in Brazilian society

During the first 15 years of the twenty-first century, Brazil’s economic growth and public policies were in the center of the debate on the growing “new middle class.” This new middle class is defined by peopl...

Authors: Celi Scalon, André Junqueira Caetano, Hugo Chaves and Luana Costa

The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat

In this paper, we use a powerful empirical resource to address what the popular politics of disadvantage might entail in contemporary Britain. We take advantage of the unusually rich qualitative data from the ...

Authors: Mike Savage and Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt

A new approach to social inequality: inequality of income and wealth in South Korea

This paper attempts to provide a new approach to social inequality, focusing on income and wealth inequality and the relationship between income inequality and wealth inequality. With an analysis of the data l...

Authors: Kwang-Yeong Shin

Housing wealth inequality in urban China: the transition from welfare allocation to market differentiation

The differentiation of housing assets is an important embodiment of wealth inequality and is also an important dimension of social stratification. The housing distribution in China has experienced a transition...

Authors: Chunling Li and Yiming Fan

Socio-economic inequalities in modern Russia and their perception by the population

This paper focuses on the objective situation regarding inequalities and their subjective perception by the population in Russia in recent years. It is shown that socio-economic inequalities are currently perc...

Authors: Svetlana Mareeva