Inequality, Socio-Cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa: Beyond Class (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030171100)

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: Dieter Neubert
ISBN-10: 3030171108
ISBN-13: 9783030171100
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2019
Pages: 433
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.92lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.38d