Overview
- Offers a provocative hypothesis and challenges established views of African societies
- Provides insight into ongoing theoretical debates, as well as an empirical basis for the new analytical framework
- Brings together debates from sociology, social anthropology and political science that are usually presented separately
Part of the book series: Frontiers of Globalization (FOG)
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This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About the author
Dieter Neubert is a retired Professor of Sociology of Development at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa
Book Subtitle: Beyond Class
Authors: Dieter Neubert
Series Title: Frontiers of Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17111-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17110-0Published: 08 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17113-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17111-7Published: 25 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-3777
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3785
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 433
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, African Culture, Sociology of Culture