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This Is What Inequality Looks Like

by You Yenn Teo
$8.90
This Is What Inequality Looks Like
This Is What Inequality Looks Like

Ethnography of inequality in contemporary Singapore.

This book delves into the societal issues of poverty and inequality in a Singaporean context. It provides insight into the structural conditions and experiences of low-income individuals, offering perspectives that will encourage readers to examine their own preconceptions and biases. Teo You Yenn skillfully combines empathy, analysis, and theoretical rigor to shine a light on the lives of those often overlooked. A must-read for those seeking to gain a better understanding of the complexities of social inequality.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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This Is What Inequality Looks Like

by You Yenn Teo
$8.90
ISBN: 9789811405952
Authors: You Yenn Teo
Publisher: Ethos Books
Date of Publication: 2019-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Creative Nonfiction, Politics, Economics
Related Topics: Politics, Economics, Social Issues, Essays, Sociology, Society, Sociology, Social Science, Society
Goodreads rating: 4.45
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This New Edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the author, and a Foreword by Kwok Kian Woon, Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. About the Book What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try? The way we frame our questions shapes the way we see solutions. This book does what appears to be a no-brainer task, but one that is missing and important: it asks readers to pose questions in different ways, to shift the vantage point from which they view ‘common sense,’ and in so doing, to see themselves as part of problems and potential solutions. This is a book about how seeing poverty entails confronting inequality. It is about how acknowledging poverty and inequality leads to uncomfortable revelations about our society and ourselves. And it is about how once we see, we cannot, must not, unsee.
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Ethnography of inequality in contemporary Singapore.

This book delves into the societal issues of poverty and inequality in a Singaporean context. It provides insight into the structural conditions and experiences of low-income individuals, offering perspectives that will encourage readers to examine their own preconceptions and biases. Teo You Yenn skillfully combines empathy, analysis, and theoretical rigor to shine a light on the lives of those often overlooked. A must-read for those seeking to gain a better understanding of the complexities of social inequality.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.