How Inequality Runs in Families

Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Most people agree that every child deserves an equal chance to flourish. Most also value family life. Yet the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. The children of disadvantaged parents typically achieve less and die younger. Early in their school careers, even the most able among them fall behind their better-off peers. They are then 8 times less likely to attend a top university. In the UK, as in other rich countries, the ‘playing-field’ is anything but level.This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life – from the right to inherit income, to the reading of bedtime stories – raise fundamental questions of social justice. Taking fairness seriously, it argues, means rethinking what equality of opportunity means.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-12
Mått:129 x 198 x 12 mm
Vikt:162 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447331537

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Gideon Calder is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Social Policy at Swansea University. The author or editor of eight books, he is co-editor of the journal Ethics and Social Welfare, and of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children.

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"A must for everyone interested in making the UK a fair, just and rewarding society... Gideon Calder asks difficult questions and offers thoughtful and thought-provoking ideas."?? Kate Pickett, University of York. "Reveals the role of families in reproducing inequalities and shows what's unjust about this - a brilliant critique of popular thinking about social mobility and meritocracy." Andrew Sayer, Lancaster University "Calder combines penetrative data-analysis with philosophical insights to myth-bust and shed much needed light on families, inequalities, and social mobility." Steve Smith, University of South Wales

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionThe family and social justiceSocial mobility and class fateUnpacking equality of opportunityTowards real equality of life chances?Seven conclusions

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