Social reproduction strategies: Understanding compound inequality in the intergenerational transfer of capital, assets and resources
Journal article
Authors | Nunn, Alexander and Tepe-Belfrage, Daniela |
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Abstract | This paper focuses on the way that households respond to ‘global pressures’ by adapting their social reproduction strategies (SRS). We understand SRS to encapsulate the more or less consciously developed day-to-day and inter-generational responses to the social conditions that households confront and their own motivations and aspirations for the future. Yet, due to a range of extant inequalities of accumulated and dynamic resources – some of which are material and some of which are at once ethereal and embodied in the concrete labouring capacities of individuals – we argue that SRS and capacities to pursue them differ widely. Differences are conditioned by positionality, access to information and the construction of ‘economic imaginaries’ as well as material resources. By looking at these different expressions of SRS we highlight how they reinforce macro-scale socio-economic pressures, creating what we term ‘compound inequality’ into the future. Compound inequalities result from different behavioural responses to socio-economic conditions, inequality and (perceived or real) insecurity, which have the potential to exaggerate inequality and insecurity into the future. Inequalities do not just arise from formal economic markets then but also from the realm of social reproduction. |
Keywords | Cultural Capital; Social Mobility; Inequality; Social Reproduction; Social Reproduction Strategies; Bourdieau; Marx; Feminism; Compund Inequality |
Year | 2019 |
Journal | Capital and Class |
Publisher | Sage |
ISSN | 03098168 |
20410980 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816819880795 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624277 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | |
hdl:10545/624277 | |
Publication dates | 30 Oct 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 31 Oct 2019, 10:15 |
Accepted | 20 Sep 2019 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States |
Contributors | University of Derby and University of Liverpool |
File | File Access Level Open |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/94w65/social-reproduction-strategies-understanding-compound-inequality-in-the-intergenerational-transfer-of-capital-assets-and-resources
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