A Sense of Inequality

Wendy Bottero has done something astonishing: brought new insights into a field that is saturated with scholarly work. Bottero convincingly shows us that in order to both understand and address inequalities, we must pay far more attention to the affective experiences of inequalities. This book contains essential insights for scholars working on the range of social inequalities, insights which must be engaged. -- Shamus Khan, Chair and Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA
This is a superb book. Sociologists frequently treat the facts of inequality as sufficient to elicit resistance – the `many’ against the `few’. Wendy Bottero powerfully demonstrates complex moral economies of inequality that disrupt the idea that the reproduction of inequality is essentially a problem of knowledge. Her pragmatist re-working of the field challenges both contemporary sociology and wider political discourse. -- John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham, UK
Inequality is increasing, but how do people experience and understand social inequalities? Based on a broad grasp of the field, Bottero moves beyond customary approaches to subjective experiences and provides new answers to urgent questions in our time. -- Marianne Nordli Hansen, Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo, Norway
From a classic pragmatist approach, Bottero’s book examines perspectives on social inequality and the multitude of layers in relations of domination. It demonstrates very convincingly how conditions that shape practices in people’s everyday lives are of the greatest importance for understanding how social inequality is reproduced and resisted. It is an outstanding contribution to the literature on social inequality. -- Ann Nilsen, Professor of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway