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Predatory Accumulation and Permanent Inequalities
The state of inequalities in the United States was already extreme, compared to other wealthy countries, before the recession. But it does seem that there is a hardening of these inequalities as the...
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Caste System 2.0
By SocProf. Chrystia Freeland: “The one thing pretty much all of us agree on is the importance of equal opportunity. Opinion is divided about the significance of rising income inequality per se. Some...
View ArticleThe Successful War on Drugs
By SocProf. This seems to be the message of The House I Live In, Eugene Jarecki’s latest film. I think this is a very important film to understand fully the War on Drugs. For many years, I used the PBS...
View ArticleVisualizing Stratification
I am sure you remember seeing this video on the extent of stratification in the US: Well, someone decided to do the same for global stratification (H/T Johann Hari on Twitter):
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Global Stratification and Healthy Life Expectancies
By David Mayeda In December 2012, The Lancet published an interesting article titled, “Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990—2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study...
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The Visual Du Jour – Wage Inequalities… Growing
From the NYT (click on the image for a larger view: There is nothing new or surprising here. The graphs tell the same story over and over: redistribution to the top, split labor market with those in...
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Increased Stratification and Frozen Mobility by Design
So explains the always relevant Danny Dorling, using the UK as example. In this New Statesman article, he explains how the precariat came to be, along with increased stratification and frozen social...
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David Harvey – Rebel Cities and The Commons
Since I mentioned David Harvey, I thought I’d repost some of the stuff I wrote when I reviewed his now-obviously relevant book. In chapter 3 of Rebel Cities, David Harvey discusses the commons in the...
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Book Review – Intern Nation
[This is a repost from a review I posted when this book came out, but it seems like the topic of unpaid internship is making a comeback on the Internet, so, revisiting this might be useful.] Welcome...
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The Visual Du Jour – Where The Rich People Are
Where it’s mostly nice, prosperous, and politically stable (at least for now):
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Human Development Index 2013
For those of us interested in sociology, globalization, global stratification, and data analysis, the annual Human Development Report is a must-read and a highly expected source of data. This year’s...
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The Visual Du Jour – Double Stratification
This graphic from the Economist is interesting on two levels: it shows the gap between CEO compensation level and worker compensation level, but it also shows the gap between media wage and lowest...
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Wealth (and Poverty) of The Counties
The US Census Bureau has released a series of recent maps showing the wealthiest and poorer counties, nationwide, using data from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program. First, median...
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My Students Will Have to Learn This Quote by Heart
This is the quote I will be using to start my unit on social stratification and social inequalities, from Goran Therborn, at the very beginning of his latest book, The Killing Fields of Inequalities:...
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Book Review – The Divide
Matt Taibbi’s The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of The Wealth Gap is not technically a sociology book, but it is an important piece of reporting on a topic that, I think, is central to the...
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Book Review – The Killing Fields of Inequality
Göran Therborn published The Killing Fields of Inequality as what looks like an expanded version of a 2009 article on the same subject. And contrary to Picketty’s massive economic volume, Therborn’s...
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Book Review – Expulsions
Every new book by Saskia Sassen is always a small event for me, since she is one of my favorite contemporary sociologist. This one is no exception. Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global...
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Stratification – The Last 30 Years in One Graph
Source. (and yes, it’s wealth, not income)
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Snowpiercer (*Spoiler Alert*)
The revolution won’t happen because the revolutionary leader does not appreciate being tricked into becoming a revolutionary leader. So, once he has the choice between taking control of the system...
View ArticleDe Facto Segregation
If you need a definition of the concept, there is no better illustration than the interactive maps below, via the Urban Institute:
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