Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa Beyond Class /

• Main Author: Neubert, Dieter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Frontiers of Globalization
• Subjects: Social structure.; Social inequality.; Ethnology-Africa.; Culture.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; African Culture.; Sociology of Culture.

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...