How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility by Calder, Gideon

How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781447331537)

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How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility by Calder, Gideon

How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility

$19.95
How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility by Calder, Gideon

How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Most people agree that every child deserves an equal chance to flourish. Most also value family life. Yet the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. The children of disadvantaged parents typically achieve less and die younger. Early in their school careers, even the most able among them fall behind their better-off peers. They are then 8 times less likely to attend a top university. In the UK, as in other rich countries, the 'playing-field' is anything but level. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life - from the right to inherit income, to the reading of bedtime stories - raise fundamental questions of social justice. Taking fairness seriously, it argues, means rethinking what equality of opportunity means.

Author: Gideon Calder
ISBN-10: 1447331532
ISBN-13: 9781447331537
Publisher: Policy Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2016
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d
By Gideon Calder
By Gideon Calder
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Gideon Calder is professor of social ethics at the University of South Wales and a member of its Centre for Social Policy.

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