Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits

Part I. Introduction

1. Inequality in Modern Societies: Causes, Consequences and Challenges
Amanda Machin, Nico Stehr

Part II. Capitalism and Inequality

2. Welfare States and Their Inequality as a Result of Cultural Differences Instead of Varieties of Capitalism
Martin Schröder

3. Bildung- und Genderstruktur im Crowdinvesting: Eine vertane Chance
Jarko Fidrmuc, Adrian Louis

4. What Have Eggs Got to Do with Inequality?
Scott G. McNall

5. Slouching Toward Inequality
Charles Lemert

Part III. Culture and Inequality

6. Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cosmospolis
Anil Jain

7. You May Kiss the Groom: Americans’ Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage
Patricia A. Gwartney, Daniel S. Schwartz

8. Inklusion, revisited
Maren Lehmann

9. Wherein Lies The Value Of Equality When Equality Is No Longer ‘Natural’?
Steve Fuller

10. Des Guten zuviel – Helden, Heilige und Streber. Eine Skizze
Joachim Landkammer

Part IV. Governing and Inequality

11. Political Inequality: Origins, Consequences, and Ways Ahead
Jennifer Shore

12. Economically based inequalities in political representation: Where do they come from?
Jan Rosset

13. Mehr Bildung, größere Ungleichheit: Ein Dilemma der Aktivierungspolitik
Richard Münch

14. What Drives Elite-Challenging Behaviours?
Reza Nakhaie

15. Warum Mehr Armut in Deutschland?
Barbara Lange, Andreas Haupt, Gerd Nollmann, Hermann Strasser

Part V. Media and Inequality

16. Konsonant oder interessengeleitet? Eine Frame-Analyse zur Berichterstattung über die Vermögensteuer im Wahljahr 2013
Dennis Lichtenstein, Markus Rhomberg, Michaela Böhme

17. Verantworten Fernsehproduzenten soziale Ungleichheit? Zur Kritischen Theorie der Fernsehproduktion
Martin R. Herbers

Part VI. Global and Local Inequality

18. Migrants as an Indicator of Global and Local Inequality: The Case of African Refugees
Heribert Adam

19. Citizenship and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Contours and Collective Responses
Carin Runciman

20. The Elite in the City: Spaces and Structures of Inequality in Johannesburg
Federica Duca

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture