The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
SECTION 1 Inequalities as process: doing inequalities over the life course
	1 Inequality across time: social change, biography, and the life course
	2 Poverty and economic insecurity in the life course
	3 Inequality as process
	4 Life course inequality and policy: a focus on child well-being
SECTION 2 Assessing inequalities: complementary methods: Imagining the understanding of inequalities
	5 Studying social inequality over the life course in modern societies: the methodological importance of life course studies
	6 The analysis of inequality in life trajectories: an integration of two approaches
	7 Evolution of COVID-19 lethality and geographically contrasting socio-economic factors in Brazil: a multilevel perspective
	8 Health inequalities across the life course: theories, statistical pitfalls, and the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
SECTION 3 The social stratification of health: the inherent longitudinality of health inequalities
	9 Mental health inequalities
	10 How an analysis of lifespan inequality can contribute to our understanding of life course inequalities
	11 Two centuries of inequalities: disability and partnership in Sweden
	12 The Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and the life course
SECTION 4 Economic and wealth inequalities: the challenge of complexity in the analysis of economic inequalities
	13 Concepts of social stratification—static and dynamic perspectives
	14 Optimising the use of measures of social stratification in research with intersectional and longitudinal analytical priorities
	15 Stagnation and inequality in a historical view: a comment on Piketty’s analysis of capitalism and the Portuguese case
	16 Things can’t only get better: inequality and democracy over a life-span
SECTION 5 Youth, education and transition to adulthood: half way down the stairs – somewhere else instead
	17 Expansion and improved permeability of post-secondary education in Germany: consequences for social inequalities in educational attainment
	18 Educational expansion across cohorts and over the life course: an international comparison of (rapid) educational expansion and the consequences of the differentiation of tertiary education
	19 Class in successive life courses in Britain since 1945
	20 Mapping young Norwegians’ self-projects and future orientations
SECTION 6 Family and linked lives: families at the heart of linked (lives and) inequalities
	21 Care inequality in later life in ageing societies: the unequal distribution of the intensity of informal support in Europe
	22 The apple, the tree and the forest: family histories as radars of social mobility and inequalities
	23 Family formation and social inequalities: a life course perspective
	24 Farewell’s children: using the life course perspective to understand female late fertility
SECTION 7 Gender inequalities: time varying and trajectories
	25 The mutual constitution of gendered and sexualised inequalities in life courses
	26 Gender trajectories and the production of inequalities from a life course perspective
	27 Inequalities in work and the intersectional life course
	28 LGBTIQ+ life course inequalities and queer temporalities
SECTION 8 Racial and ethnic inequalities: the weight of structure on the skin
	29 The centrality of race to inequality across the world-system
	30 A life course approach to understanding ethnic health inequalities in later life: an example using the United Kingdom as national context
	31 The inequalities of empire: comparative perspectives
	32 How the COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the migrant- inequality narrative
Index