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200 10$aInequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa $eBeyond Class /$fby Dieter Neubert
205   $a1st ed. 2019.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019.
215   $a1 online resource (XI, 433 p. 8 illus., 1 illus. in color.) 
225 1 $aFrontiers of Globalization
311   $a3-030-17110-8 
327   $a1. Introduction: The Middle Class Debate and Its Limits -- 2. Poverty and Inequality in Development Policy: Concepts of Poverty, Vulnerability and Livelihood -- 3. Class and Capitalism in the Global South: A Perspective on Africa -- 4. Elements of Socio-Cultural Positioning in Africa -- 5. Patterns of Individual Social Positioning: Gender, Age and Disability -- 6. Risks and Aspirations: Strategies for Coping with Uncertainty -- 7. Extended Concepts of Social Positioning -- 8. A New Framework for the Analysis of Social Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 9. Conclusion.
330   $aThis book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored. For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies ? and in other societies of the world ? we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.
410  0$aFrontiers of Globalization
606   $aSocial structure
606   $aEquality
606   $aEthnology?Africa
606   $aCulture
606   $aSocial Structure, Social Inequality$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010
606   $aAfrican Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411030
606   $aSociology of Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22100
615  0$aSocial structure.
615  0$aEquality.
615  0$aEthnology?Africa.
615  0$aCulture.
615 14$aSocial Structure, Social Inequality.
615 24$aAfrican Culture.
615 24$aSociology of Culture.
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