Book Review – The Spirit Level
June 29, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Book Reviews, Consumerism, Corporatism, Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, Health, Health Care, Networks, Public Policy, Social Capital, Social Exclusion, Social Inequalities, Social Institutions, Social Interaction, Social Privileges, Social Psychology, Social Research, Social Stratification, Socialization, Structural Violence, Sustainability, Symbolic Violence
Inequality is bad for us, individually and socially. So say Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (with extensive website). Do you love scatterplots? I hope so because the book is chock full of them, establishing correlations between high levels social inequalities and high levels [...]
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