Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job characteristics and their position in the industrial structure. Utilizing a dataset of 76.6 million Brazilian workers and methods from network science, we map the Brazilian...

This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries,...

Verlagsinfo: Mit dem Weltbestseller "Das Kapital im 21.Jahrhundert" hat Thomas Piketty eines der wichtigsten Bücher unserer Zeit geschrieben. Jetzt legt er mit einem gewaltigen Werk nach: Kapital und Ideologie ist eine so noch niemals geschriebene Globalgeschichte der sozialen Ungleichheit und...