Book Description
Explores and challenges existing conventions of inequality in Africa while offering new insights to explain persistent poverty across the continent.
Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108491995
Explores and challenges existing conventions of inequality in Africa while offering new insights to explain persistent poverty across the continent.
Author : Arthur Tuden
Publisher : New York : The Free Press ; London : Collier-Macmillan
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
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Author : Dieter Neubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030171116
This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored. For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies – and in other societies of the world – we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.
Author : Lena Kroeker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319621483
This volume challenges the concept of the ‘new African middle class’ with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on the rise, but models of class based on experiences from other regions of the world cannot be easily transferred to the African continent. Empirical contributions, drawn from a diverse range of contexts, address both African histories of class formation and the political roles of the continent’s middle classes, and also examine the important interdependencies that cut across inter-generational, urban-rural and class divides. This thought-provoking book argues emphatically for a revision of common notions of the 'middle class', and for the inclusion of insights 'from the South' into the global debate on class. Middle Classes in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as NGOs and policy makers with an interest in African societies.
Author : Ali Banuazizi
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
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Author : Dominika Koter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107171490
Focussing on Sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter analyses why ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies, but not in others.
Author : Henning Melber
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783607165
Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative. Ambitious, aspirational and increasingly affluent, this group is said to embody the values and hopes of the new Africa, with international bodies ranging from the United Nations Development Programme to the World Bank regarding them as important agents of both economic development and democratic change. This narrative, however, obscures the complex and often ambiguous role that this group actually plays in African societies. Bringing together economists, political scientists, anthropologists and development experts, and spanning a variety of case studies from across the continent, this collection provides a much-needed corrective to the received wisdom within development circles, and provides a fresh perspective on social transformations in contemporary Africa.
Author : Ladislav Holý
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Obsah: L. Holý, M. Stuchlík: Analysis of Social Stratification; L. Holý: Social Stratification in Rwanda; J. Kandert: Social Stratification of the Zande; O. Skalníková: Social Stratification of the Agni; M. Stuchlík: SocialStratification of the Herero; J. Svobodová: Social Stratification of the Bamileke.
Author : Sabrina Zajak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000767213
This volume addresses the contested relationship between social stratification and social movements in three different ways: First, the authors address the relationship between social stratification and the emergence of protest mobilization. Second, the texts look at social stratification and social positions to explain variations in political orientations, as well as differing aims and interests of protestors. Finally, the volume focuses on the socio-structural composition of protestors. Social Stratification and Social Movements takes up recent attempts to reconnect research on these two fields. Instead of calling for a return of a class perspective or abandoning the classical social movement research agenda, it introduces a multi-dimensional perspective on stratification and social movements and broadens the view by extending the empirical analysis beyond Europe.