In the years since the global financial crisis,inequality has risen to the top of the political agenda across much of the world—from outrage over bankers' bonuses to the Occupy Movements' slogan "We Are the 99 Percent." Economists too have taken up the challenge:works by Joseph Stiglitz (2013),World Bank analyst Branko Milanovi(c) (2010) and more recently Thomas Piketty (2014) have all sought to address the fundamental disparities that seem to rule our times.But what about sociology? Among the most striking claims in G(o)ran Therborn's trenchant book is that,despite decades of empirical studies of"stratification" and a profusion of Bourdieusian scholarship on "distinction," the discipline has so far neglected to "put a spotlight on the multidimensionality of inequality and its nefarious consequences" (Therborn 2013,2).
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