The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of History

Podcast 14. April 2021
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Mike Savage | London School of Economics and Political Science

Lecture Series "Wealth and Inequality"

In this lecture, which draws on themes from his book The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past, Mike Savage argues that escalating inequality is bound up with the exhaustion of modernist paradigms and the renewal of historical forms which sociologists have characteristically seen as past residues: empires, elites, city states, and racial and gender hierarchies.

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