Inequality in our midst
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2048858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn Lesorogol (0000-0001-8946-0289, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-249 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4847 • E-ISSN: 2330-4847 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/sea2.12028 |
| OpenAlex | W1767343827 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
The recent recession, Occupy Wall Street movement, Eurozone crisis, and growing recognition of the gap between the top 1 percent and the middle class have brought new attention to the problem of economic and social inequality in the United States in particular and across the globe more generally. In 2013, the Society for Economic Anthropology held its annual conference on the theme of inequality. This issue brings together papers presented at the conference. Although each article presents empirical research from a different part of the world and diverse cultures, some common questions emerge. Many authors investigate how unequal social structures are generated and maintained and the role of economic systems and cultural forms and rules in that process. Drawing on ethnography, they attend to the lived experience of social exclusion, dislocation, and relocation as systems undergo change. The process of change is itself also critical; how do people act individually and together in the face of inequality? These are some of the questions that the articles in this issue explore. The studies presented here document, through empirically grounded research, many aspects of these complex questions and move our understanding forward in new ways
Development economics · Economic inequality · Economics · Globe · Inequality · Middle class · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Recession · Relocation · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Liquidated
Governing the Commons
Institutions and Social Conflict
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
The Development of Underdevelopment
Primitive Polynesian Economy
In Search of Respect
The Logic of Practice
Social Exclusion, Poverty and Discrimination Towards an Analytical Framework
Infrastructures, Societies, and History [and Comments]
Political Systems of Highland Burma
Pastoralism and Wealth Inequality
The economic bases of demographic reproduction
Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |