Distributional and Categorical Inequalities in Europe: Structural Configurations
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António Firmino da Costa [1] ; Rosário Mauritti [1] ; Susana da Cruz Martins [1] ; Nuno Nunes [1] ; Ana Lúcia Romão [2]
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[1] Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Socorro, Portugal
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[2] School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP-ULisbon), Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES)
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- Localización: Reducing Inequalities. A Challenge for the European Union? / Renato Miguel do Carmo (ed. lit.), Cédric Rio (ed. lit.), Márton Medgyesi (ed. lit.), 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-65005-0, págs. 63-74
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Europe is currently a highly unequal social space. The marked inequalities we find today in Europe as a whole may seem unexpected given the convergence objectives the European institutions have set over the last half century. However, contrary to expectations, they are substantial and have troubling implications. This chapter briefly presents a set of contributions to the characterisation of the inequality structure that has arisen in today’s Europe. Like most of the important theoretical references on the subject in sociology, our analysis adopts a multidimensional concept of inequality, looking primarily at the dimensions linked to the distributional inequalities of economic and educational resources, and the categorical inequalities between nation states and between social classes.
