Social Inequality - Warwick-Booth, Louise

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Résumé :
Social inequality is a core area of Sociology, as well as working across Pol & IR, Health and Social Work. This new edition still provides a?comprehensive introduction to all areas of social inequality, complete with new chapters on sexuality, employment and migration and has been fully updated with coverage of covid-19, Brexit and the recent BLM protests and how they relate to inequality....

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What Is Social Inequality?
Social Divisions And Inequality: Social Class
Social Divisions And Inequality: Employment
Social Divisions And Inequality: Youth And Age
Social Divisions And Inequality: Health And Disability
Social Divisions And Inequality: Gender
Social Divisions And Inequality: Sexualities
Social Divisions And Inequality: Ethnicity
Social Divisions And Inequality: Migration
Globalisation And The Global Dimensions Of Inequality
The Global Social Policy Arena And Inequality
Social Policy And Its Relationship to Inequality: Facilitator or Potential Solution?
Solutions to Inequality: How Do We Create A More Equal Global Society?
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Dr Louise?Warwick-Booth is a sociologist with specific interests in health policy and social policy. She is a Reader and an Associate Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University. She teaches on a wide range of modules including sociology for health, policy and politics of health, research design, communities and community health as well as global health.

Louise's research projects are diverse but focus on social inequalities and vulnerable populations such disadvantaged women experiencing abuse, ?Traveller and Gypsy communities and socially isolated older people. ?She evaluates interventions to improve the health of such vulnerable groups drawing upon various methods including feminist participatory approaches and creative tools in order to give people voice and actively participate in the research process. Her research has been used in practice to improve interventions during their delivery and in securing future funding for health promotion interventions in the voluntary sector.

Louise has published several textbooks, including Global Health Studies (2018), Contemporary Health Studies: An Introduction 2^nd Edition (2021, with colleagues), Creating Participatory Research (2021, with colleagues) as well as numerous journal articles.