Monthly Archives: January 2011

U.K.higher education: Is the social mobility argument really settled?

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

Last week Ben chipped in on U.K. higher education reform. I don’t know why he avoided it until now, but I might guess it was for much the same reason that I did. The same reason I was leery of … Continue reading →

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Art and Inequality (Or, “How to Spend an Extra $69 million”)

Posted on January 28, 2011 by

In 1920 the painter Amedeo Modigliani died at the age of 36, penniless, wracked by meningitis, and suffering from alcoholism. In 2009 his masterpiece, “Nude Sitting on a Divan,” was sold to a Turkish billionaire for $69 million at a … Continue reading →

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How Did Americans Become Super-Sized? How Do We Get Skinny Again?

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

There are countless proposals to reduce obesity in the United States, but causal links are difficult to establish. Fairly and effectively targeting low-income populations is an unresolved challenge. Turn on the television in the United States and you will quickly … Continue reading →

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Inequality of time: can we measure it?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by

Money can’t buy you a twenty-five hour day.  Indeed, there can be nothing more equal between people than time itself (ignoring differing life expectancy, of course). But the amount of time we each control does vary: for the single mother … Continue reading →

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The right protest for the wrong reasons

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

Having previously kept quiet about the sharp rise in student fees in England, I finally cracked and wrote this post over at the Sociological Imagination.  In short: I think the student march was the right protest for the wrong reasons

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Bringing Home the Bacon, and Cooking it Too

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

In the groundbreaking 1989 book “the Second Shift,” Arlie Hochschild makes the argument that the women’s movement helped to break down gender discrimination in the workplace, but did very little to address inequality in household domestic labor. The working women … Continue reading →

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The strengths of conservative welfare regimes in reducing inequality

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

In a guest post, Diederik Boertien argues that conservative welfare regimes might reduce inequality by being less complex and less risky – making it simpler to make good choices about the future. People differ in their abilities to exploit the … Continue reading →

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Unfortunate, Unfair, Unjust

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

I am looking forward to an exciting year at Inequalities, and if Ben’s and Brendan’s 2011 posts are any indication (and surely they are!), you should be too. I have been busy prepping for the Spring semester, but I wanted … Continue reading →

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Inequalities round-up: Jan 2011

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

In-between a series of longer and more provocative articles, we can just about squeeze in the (roughly monthly) round-up of the latest inequalities research.  This edition: how people inherit jobs as well as money; the legacy of Black-White wealth disparities; … Continue reading →

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Michael Vick and the Politics of the Second Chance

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

If you don’t watch football – the kind with helmets, pads, and the oblong ball – you may ask “who is Michael Vick, and why should I care about him?” Besides being a contender for the Most Valuable Player and … Continue reading →

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