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The Spirit Level de Kate Pickett

The Spirit Level

Autor Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 noi 2010

Recomandăm The Spirit Level ca o resursă fundamentală pentru studenții și profesioniștii din sociologie, politici publice și sănătate colectivă, fiind o lucrare de referință în bibliografiile universitare internaționale. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care Richard Wilkinson și Kate Pickett demonstrează că nu bogăția totală a unei națiuni, ci ecartul dintre bogați și săraci determină indicatorii de sănătate și stabilitate socială. Ediția de față aduce un plus de valoare prin includerea unui capitol nou care analizează critic dezbaterea publică și academică generată de tezele lor, oferind astfel un context actualizat asupra validității datelor.

Această lucrare extinde cadrul propus de Unhealthy Societies cu date noi din analize comparative extinse între țări precum Japonia, SUA sau Suedia, transformând o ipoteză medicală într-o teorie socială cuprinzătoare. În contextul operei lor, The Spirit Level reprezintă puntea de legătură între observațiile clinice din lucrările timpurii ale lui Wilkinson și viziunea sistemică din The Good Society sau ACT Now. Spre deosebire de The Impact of Inequality, care se concentra pe mecanismele psihosociale, acest volum oferă o bază empirică vastă, ilustrată prin grafice și diagrame, ce demonstrează cum inegalitatea afectează inclusiv segmentele privilegiate ale populației. Tonul este unul analitic și precis, evitând speculațiile în favoarea dovezilor statistice concludente.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241954294
ISBN-10: 0241954290
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: Integrated Cartoons
Dimensiuni: 129 x 201 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Este o lectură esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele ascunse ale tensiunilor sociale moderne. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă bazată pe date, nu pe ideologie, despre motivele pentru care societățile mai egale sunt mai sănătoase și mai sigure. Recomandăm această carte pentru capacitatea de a transforma statistica aridă într-o argumentație logică despre viitorul comunităților noastre.

Despre autor

Richard Wilkinson este profesor emerit la Facultatea de Medicină a Universității din Nottingham și profesor onorific la University College London, cu o formare solidă în istorie economică și epidemiologie. Kate Pickett este profesor de epidemiologie la Universitatea din York și cercetător în cadrul National Institute for Health Research. Împreună, cei doi au revoluționat domeniul epidemiologiei sociale, munca lor la The Spirit Level fiind nominalizată pentru „Proiectul de cercetare al anului 2009” de către Times Higher Education Supplement. Expertiza lor combinată oferă autoritate studiului inegalității sociale la nivel global.

Notă biografică

Richard Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research and his work has been published in 10 languages. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.

Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at Berkeley before spending four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Her work, with Richard Wilkinson, on The Spirit Level was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the Times Higher Education Supplement, and their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade, by the New Statesman.

Descriere scurtă

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited.

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer: inequality.

This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show:

How almost everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is
That societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them - including the well-off
How we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future

Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.

'A big idea, big enough to change political thinking' - Guardian

'A remarkable new book ... the implications are profound' - Will Hutton, Observer

'The evidence is hard to dispute' - Economist

Richard Wilkinson studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.

Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. Her work with Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the Times Higher Education Supplement, and their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman.

Recenzii

“Wilkinson and Pickett make an eloquent case that the income gap between a nation's richest and poorest is the most powerful indicator of a functioning and healthy society…Felicitous prose and fascinating findings make this essential reading.”
—"Publishers Weekly "(starred)
 
“In this fascinating sociological study, the authors do an excellent job of presenting the research, analyzing nuances, and offering policy suggestions for creating more equal and sustainable societies. For all readers, specialized or not, with an interest in understanding the dynamics today between economic and social conditions.”—"Library Journal"

“"The Spirit Level" will change the way you think about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, especially if you live in the United States. You will reexamine what it means to be successful, how you will seek and achieve personal satisfaction, and what you owe your fellow citizen.”—Jo

"Wilkinson and Pickett make an eloquent case that the income gap between a nation's richest and poorest is the most powerful indicator of a functioning and healthy society...Felicitous prose and fascinating findings make this essential reading."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred)
"In this fascinating sociological study, the authors do an excellent job of presenting the research, analyzing nuances, and offering policy suggestions for creating more equal and sustainable societies. For all readers, specialized or not, with an interest in understanding the dynamics today between economic and social conditions."--"Library Journal"
""The Spirit Level" will change the way you think about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, especially if you live in the United States. You will reexamine what it means to be successful, how you will seek and achieve personal satisfaction, and what you owe your fellow citizen."--Jo Perry, BookBrowse.com
"It has taken two experts from the field of public health to deliver a major study of the effects of inequality on society. Though Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett are British, their research explores the United States in depth, and their work is an important contribution to the debate our country needs.""--"Robert B. Reich, from the""foreword
"Might be the most important book of the year."--"Guardian"
"Fascinating and deeply provoking..."The Spirit Level "does contain a powerful political message. It is impossible to read it and not to be impressed by how often greater equality appears to be the answer, whatever happens to be the question. It provides a connection between what otherwise look like disparate social problems."--David Runciman, "London Review of Books"

Descriere

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It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. "The Spirit Level," based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them-the rich and middle class as well as the poor.
The remarkable data assembled in "The Spirit Level" exposes stark differences, not only among the nations of the first world but even within America's fifty states. Almost every modern social problem-poor health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy, mental illness-is more likely to occur in a less-equal society.
Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lay bare the contradictions between material success and social failure in the developed world. But they do not merely tell us what's wrong. They offer a way toward a new political outlook, shifting from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society.