Add to ORKGThis chapter is about inequality and social class in Australia. It addresses inequality and social class through a critical review of egalitarianism. More specifically, it addresses four possible rationales for the egalitarian view of Australia: the distribution of wealth and income, social mobility, public policy and class awareness. It then considers whether these rationales provide support for the view of Australia as an egalitarian society
Among the several approaches to the empirical analysis of patterns of social inequality in the advan...
Indigenous Australians experience one of the highest levels of health inequality suffered by any gr...
Despite a comparatively ‘flat’ social structure and lack of obvious class-based cleavages, Australia...
Australia is often referred to as a classless society, with few of the class distinctions of the old...
The idea that a Study of Social and Economic Inequalities (SSEI) should be undertaken in Australia w...
For many years, Australians have liked to think of themselves as egalitarian, and for much of our hi...
The idea that a Study of Social and Economic Inequalities (SSEI) should be undertaken in Australia w...
This paper evaluates the debate in the literature on the extent to which a concern for egalitarianis...
This chapter sets out the key trends in inequality and in household incomes and its components acros...
Modern Australia began as a European settlement in a land inhabited by Indigenous people. The histor...
This chapter explores different forms of educational inequality, how Australia compares to other c...
Capitalism is the first class system in history that pretends not to be one. Consequently, the domin...
The debate between functional-structural and conflict theorists ,summarized in terms of its most sa...
Haigh and Moloney examine the manner in which social equity is embedded in Australian public policy....
What is class? How can an understanding of class help to explain health inequality? What can be done...
Among the several approaches to the empirical analysis of patterns of social inequality in the advan...
Indigenous Australians experience one of the highest levels of health inequality suffered by any gr...
Despite a comparatively ‘flat’ social structure and lack of obvious class-based cleavages, Australia...
Australia is often referred to as a classless society, with few of the class distinctions of the old...
The idea that a Study of Social and Economic Inequalities (SSEI) should be undertaken in Australia w...
For many years, Australians have liked to think of themselves as egalitarian, and for much of our hi...
The idea that a Study of Social and Economic Inequalities (SSEI) should be undertaken in Australia w...
This paper evaluates the debate in the literature on the extent to which a concern for egalitarianis...
This chapter sets out the key trends in inequality and in household incomes and its components acros...
Modern Australia began as a European settlement in a land inhabited by Indigenous people. The histor...
This chapter explores different forms of educational inequality, how Australia compares to other c...
Capitalism is the first class system in history that pretends not to be one. Consequently, the domin...
The debate between functional-structural and conflict theorists ,summarized in terms of its most sa...
Haigh and Moloney examine the manner in which social equity is embedded in Australian public policy....
What is class? How can an understanding of class help to explain health inequality? What can be done...
Among the several approaches to the empirical analysis of patterns of social inequality in the advan...
Indigenous Australians experience one of the highest levels of health inequality suffered by any gr...
Despite a comparatively ‘flat’ social structure and lack of obvious class-based cleavages, Australia...