Originally published in 1982 Rethinking Social Inequality is a collection of essays looking at the breadth of contemporary work in social inequality. The book focuses on inequality as a central project of sociological enquiry and is unified by the overarching rejection of a distributional notion of inequality in the place of a relational one. The object of the study is not the deprived social group but the unequal social relations which is manifested in a variety of forms. The themes addressed in this collection indicate a shift in the areas of study concerned with social inequality rejecting class-based inequality in with that of race gender and age.|Rethinking Social Inequality | Sociology
