Social Advantage and Disadvantage

"The book critically discusses--from a global and a UK perspective--a spectrum of conceptual frameworks and ideas relating to poverty, social exclusion, capability deprivation, rights violations, social immobility, and human or social capital deficiency. It addresses the advantage and disadvantage from a life course perspective through discussions of family and childhood, education, work, old age, and the dynamics of income and wealth. It considers cross-cutting divides that are implicated in the social construction and maintenance of advantage and disadvantage, including divisions premised on gender, 'race' and ethnicity, migration, religion, neighbourhood, and the experience of crime"--Back cover.