Entitlement and belonging: social restructuring and multicultural Britain

Multiple ways of belonging in a multicultural city.

The focus of the present study is on the interdependence of language and urban identity set within the framework of theory of practice and the concept of the right to the city. It is concerned with the formation of local identities in the context of a multicultural city of Pula, in the Croatian region of Istria, characterized by a substantial presence of immigrant and ethnic minority groups. Th...

Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited: Entitlement Cuts, Public Sector Restructuring, and Inegalitarian Trends in Advanced Capitalist Societies

The goal of this article is to provide a balanced assessment of what has happened to the welfare state in advanced capitalist societies since 1980. What is one to make of recent spending cuts and welfare reforms? Do they represent a fundamental rollback of the welfare activities of the state and thus a belated victory for Thatcherite-Reaganite ideas? Or should these changes rather be seen as in...

Who Is Doing the Housework in Multicultural Britain?

There is an extensive literature on the domestic division of labour within married and cohabiting couples and its relationship to gender equality within the household and the labour market. Most UK research focuses on the white majority population or is ethnicity 'blind', effectively ignoring potentially significant intersections between gender, ethnicity, socio-economic position and domestic l...

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Intergeneration and intrageneration social mobility in Britain

Analyses of social mobility remains divided between structuralist (e.g. class structural) and individualist (e.g. status attainment) perspectives. Primarily adopted by sociologists, the former focus on the opportunity structure in which social mobility operates, while the latter, adopted by economists, on the individual attributes associated with mobility. It is becoming increasingly clear howe...