Impact of Inequality by Wilkinson, Richard G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Also by Richard G. Wilkinson Title Page Dedication Preface 1 - Affluent Societies

Changing Lifetimes Health as a Social Indicator The Epidemiological Transition Health Inequalities Summary and Plan of Chapters

2 - Inequality

Tocqueville Circumstantial Evidence Trust The Strength of Community Life Homicide and Inequality Hostility, Racism, and Voting Summing Up

3 - Anxieties and Insecurities

Social Status Friendship Stress in Early Life Ourselves in the Eyes of Others The Social Emotion? Conclusion

4 - Health and Inequality

Measures of Inequality and Social Status Differentials Inequality and Health in the United States and Other Rich Countries Developing Countries Communism and the Postcommunist Transition Problems and Anomalies The Effect of the Size of the Area Within Which Inequality Is Measured Are the Observed Differences in Inequality Large Enough to Matter? Other Interpretations of the Relationship Three Final Points

5 - Violence and Inequality

Why Violence Is Related to Inequality Low Social Status and Self-Esteem Violence and Shame Biological Indicators of Psychological Sensitivity to Social Status

6 - Cooperation or Conflict?

Social Corrosion Social Distancing Group Density Effect Dominance Versus Friendship Gift Exchange and “Warre” A Thought Experiment Social Dominance Summary of Links and Direction of Causation

7 - Gender, Race, and Inequality

Gender The “Bicycling Reaction” Race Kerala

8 - Evolved Social Strategies

Prehistoric Equality Scarcity and the Decline of Equality in Agricultural Societies The Social Impact of Affluence Affiliative and Dominance Strategies The Social Brain Social Development and Early Experience The Biology of Stress and Its Impact on Health

9 - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity From Private Intuition to Public Recognition The Social Transformation Living with the Market Reducing Inequality Economic Democracy The Environment and Third World Poverty . . . and Finally

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