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Handbook on social stratification in the BRIC countries : change and perspective /

Along with the fast growing economy, the term "BRICs" was coined to represent the newly emerging countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved people's life; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced the transformatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Li, Peilin, 1955- (Editor ), Gorshkov, M. K. (Mikhail Konstantinovich) (Editor ), Scalon, Maria Celi (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Social stratification and its transformation in Brazil / C. Scalon
  • 2. Changes in the social structure of Russian society within a period of transformation / Z.T. Golenkova and M.K. Gorshkov
  • 3. Social stratification and change in contemporary India / K.L. Sharma
  • 4. Changes in China's social stratification since 1978 / Li Peilin
  • 5. Labor, workers, and politics in contemporary Brazil: 1980-2010 / M.A. Santana
  • 6. The working class in a transitional society: from the Soviet Union to the Russian Republic / Z.T. Golenkova and E.D. Igitkhanian
  • 7. The Urban industrial working class and the rural peasant working class in India / K.L. Sharma
  • 8. The status quo and change to the working class in contemporary China / Li Wei and Tian Feng
  • 9. The Brazilian peasantry: a history of resistance / M. de Nazareth Baudel Wanderley
  • 10. The transformation of the social structure in modern rural Russia / A.A. Hagurov
  • 11. The differentiation of the peasantry in India since independence / K.L. Sharma
  • 12. Rural society and peasants in China / Fan Ping
  • 13. Innovative entrepreneurship in Brazil / S.K. Guimarães
  • 14. The development of entrepreneurship in Russia: main trends and the status quo / A. Chepurenko
  • 15. Tradition and entrepreneurship of Indian private entrepreneurs / K.L. Sharma
  • 16. China's fledgling private entrepreneurs in a transitional economy / Chen Guangjin
  • 17. The formation of the middle class in Brazil: history and prospects / A. Salata and C. Scalon
  • 18. The middle class in Russian society: homogeneity or heterogeneity? / N.E. Tichonova and S.V. Mareyeva.
  • 19. The rise of the middle class in India since independence / K.L. Sharma
  • 20. The heterogeneous composition and multiple identities of China's middle class / Li Chunling
  • 21. Income inequality and social stratification in Brazil: key determining factors and changes in the first decade of the 21st century / L.G. Costa and C. Scalon
  • 22. Income inequality in Russia / Y. Epikhina
  • 23. Poverty and income inequality in India's urban and rural areas / K.L. Sharma
  • 24. Structural characteristics and trends of income inequality in China / Chen Guangjin
  • 25. Educational inequality and social stratification in Brazil / M. da Costa, M.C. Koslinski and L.G. Costa
  • 26. Inequality in education: the case of Russia / D.L. Konstantinovskiy
  • 27. Education and social stratification in India: systematic inequality / K.L. Sharma
  • 28. Educational inequality and educational expansion in China / Li Chunling
  • 29. Beyond social stratification: a new angle on consumer practices in contemporary Brazil / M. Castañeda
  • 30. Consumption and lifestyle in Russia / P.M. Kozyreva, A.E. Nizamova and A.I. Smirnov
  • 31. The new emerging consumption class and their lifestyles / K.L. Sharma
  • 32. The stratification of consumption among social classes, occupational groups, and identity groups in China / Tian Feng
  • 33. Working class formation in Brazil: from unions to state power / A. Cardoso
  • 34. The research of class and group consciousness in contemporary Russian society / M.F. Chernysh
  • 35. Social-class connection and class identity in urban and rural areas / K.L. Sharma
  • 36. Stratum consciousness and stratum identification in China / Li Wei.