Social polarisation at the local level: a four-town comparative study on the challenges of politicising inequality in Britain
| Autor: | Mike Savage, Sarah Cant, Jill Ebrey, Mark Fransham, Insa Koch, Luna Glucksberg |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Community studies
060101 anthropology Sociology and Political Science Inequality HT Communities. Classes. Races media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 0506 political science Intermediary Order (business) HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform 050602 political science & public administration 0601 history and archaeology Economic geography Sociology media_common |
| Popis: | This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place ‘on the ground’. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of ‘elite-based’ polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and ‘poverty-based’ polarisation (in Margate and Oldham). Yet there are also common features. Across the towns, marginalised communities express a sense of local belonging. But tensions between social groups also remain strong and all towns are marked by a weak or ‘squeezed middle’. We argue that the weakness of intermediary institutions, including but not limited to the ‘missing middle’, and capable of bridging gaps between various social groups, provides a major insight into both the obstacles to, and potential solutions for, re-politicising inequality today. |
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