Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Grusky, David B.
• MacLean, Alair
• Grusky, David B

Titel

The Social Fallout of a High-Inequality Regime

Ist Teil von

• The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016-01, Vol.663 (1), p.33-52

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The spectacular takeoff in income inequality in the US commenced long ago and has now become a fixed and seemingly stable foundation of the contemporary social life. Although there has been much research on the sources and causes of the takeoff, people know less about how people have come to forge new ways of living in the context of their high-inequality regime. Here, Grusky and MacLean sketch out the "social fallout" of rising inequality across these various domains and to provide suggestive evidence on the scope of that fallout. They begin by reviewing the facts of the takeoff in inequality. Then they lay out two competing narratives about the social fallout, narratives that are highly stylized renditions of the trajectory of inequality history.