Focusing on the past decade, this review considers advances in the qualitative study of working poverty, welfare reform, patterns of family formation, neighborhood effects, class-based patterns of childhood socialization, and the growing European literature on social exclusion. We highlight the...

Anthropology attempts to dig deeply into the daily lives of those on the receiving end of government policy to ask social structural questions: what resources families draw on in adapting to economic shocks and how successful that adaptation process really is; how the internal dynamics of a...

As inequality grows rapidly both in post-industrial societies and in the high-growth economies of the developing world, its centrality and ubiquity among problems of interest to social scientists is becoming only more apparent. And among all of inequality's causes and manifestations, access to...