https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Inequality-s-Bright-Future https://booksandideas.net/Inequality-s-Bright-Future 2019-11-14T08:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande Economy inequalities middle classes <p>How much are promises of democratic equality worth when the material situation of the middle and working classes is stagnating or regressing? Through an implacable analysis of global inequalities, Branko Milanovic brings to light the challenges faced by the struggle for social justice in the early twenty-first century.</p> https://booksandideas.net/What-It-Means-to-Be-a-Sociologist https://booksandideas.net/What-It-Means-to-Be-a-Sociologist 2011-04-27T08:14:21Z text/html en Émilie Frenkiel International China sociology <span class="caps">FMSH</span> middle classes Text Interviews <p>In this interview, sociologist and sinologist Jean-Louis Rocca describes the development of Chinese sociology since its rebirth in the early 1980s. He also discusses the changes that have taken place in Chinese society by analysing representations of the middle classes.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Lula-Father-of-the-Poor https://booksandideas.net/Lula-Father-of-the-Poor 2011-04-04T15:09:37Z text/html en Frédéric Louault Politics inequalities elections Brazil poverty middle classes <p>Lula had promised to be the president of the poor, and with the help of favourable economic conditions, he was able to reduce poverty by raising and broadening social minima. However, unable to get to grips with the roots of social imbalances, he left his successor a country still riven by inequality.</p>