Beyond capital? The challenge for sociology in Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Holmwood (0000-0002-3440-3524, School of Sociology University of Nottingham) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 607-618 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.12104 |
| PMID | 25516341 |
| OpenAlex | W1545634859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article offers a 'local',British, reading ofPiketty's landmark book,Capital in the Twenty-First Century, suggesting that the challenge it offers to sociological approaches to inequality is more fundamental than hitherto recognized. The variations in 'national trajectories' exposed byPiketty revealBritain to be anomalous in terms of standard approaches to the path dependencies embedded in different welfare regimes. Using the recent work ofMonicaPrasad on 'settler capitalism' in theUSAand the tax and debt-finance regime associated with it, the article suggests that colonialism and empire and its postwar unravelling has had deep consequences forBritish social stratification, albeit largely neglected byBritish sociologists. Finally, it points to the fact that the form of tax and debt-finance regime that has become reinforced inBritain is at the heart of recent radical reforms to higher education. These are the currently unexplicated conditions of our future practice as sociologists and, therefore, an obstacle to building a critical sociology on the foundations laid out byPiketty
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Social inequality and its consequences in the twenty-first century
Economic Growth, Wealth and Wealth Inequality in Asia before, during and after the Global Financial Crisis
The Literature on Piketty
(Re)discovering the lost middle
Against a descriptive turn
A Manifesto for the Public University
The Land of Too Much
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Top Incomes Over the Twentieth Century
Varieties of Capitalism
The Politics of Social Solidarity
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998
Europe and the ‘Americanization’ of British Social Policy
Connected Sociologies
Rethinking Modernity
A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume III
Sociology's misfortune
Piketty's Nightmare Capitalism
Whose Side Are We On
The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology
Analysing Social Inequality
The cosmopolitan perspective
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |