First published in 1998, this books considers defining the concept of poverty as a collective issue through an empitrical view point on an international scale.

Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migrati

In contemporary European and American urban policy and politics and in academic research it is typically assumed that spatial concentrations of poor households

An examination of the state of the art in stratification research, looking at data, methods, theory, and new empirical findings in social inequality, life cours