Politics, Geography and Social Stratification (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)

Keith Hoggart, Eleonore Kofman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781138800380
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317627302
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

The major themes explored in this book, originally published in 1986, are the political resonances of social stratification and change; the growing distance between the working class and the providers of social services; and the role of locality in social reproduction.

The relationship between society and space is the subject of a major debate in developed countries. The key questions are about just how far spatial patterns and local conditions affect social relations and stratification and how far they shape collective action, electoral responses and class.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Tables
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Class, Space and Disorganised Capitalism
• 3. Space, Class and Voting in Britain
• 4. A Conceptual Enquiry Into Urban Politics and Gender
• 5. Little Games and Big Stories: Accounting for the Practice of Personality and Politics in the 1945 General Elections
• 6. State Sponsored Control-Managers, Poverty Professionals and the Inner City Working Class
• 7. Class Relations and Local Economic Planning
• 8. Social Space and the Provision of Public Services: Segregation in the Ile de France Region
• 9. The Role of Labour and Housing Markets in the Production of Geographical Variations in Social Stratification
• 10. Social Relations, Residential Segregation and the Home
• List of Contributors
• Index