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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...
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...
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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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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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Book Review – The Gang & Beyond
[Disclaimer: the publisher sent me a copy of this book for review.] Simon Hallsworth’s The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds is as much a study on gangs in the context of street...
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Measuring Poverty
If you do not subscribe to the US Census Bureau updates, you are missing out on a lot of great information. Yesterday, the update was about poverty, how to measure it, and the latest data on the...
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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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