Stratification in the 21 century: Opportunities and trajectories

Celi Scalon; Fernando Tavares Júnior; Sin Yi Cheung

doi:10.15448/1984-7289.2022.1.42936

Authors

Celi Scalon Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9477-3156
Fernando Tavares Júnior Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7892-4017
Sin Yi Cheung Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9913-1451

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2022.1.42936

Keywords:

Stratification, Trajectories, Social Inequalities

Abstract

The global Covid-19 pandemic had seen inequalities much exacerbated and disparities between and within nations widened. The socio-economic crisis experienced in Brazil is no exception. The long-term impacts of the pandemic on our socio-economic and political lives and how they shape the production and reproduction of inequalities will continue to dominate contemporary sociological debates. We propose a set of original papers that focus not only on the measurement of social inequalities, but seek to articulate the complex social processes based on new empirical evidence on wealth distribution, well-being and life chances in the 21^stcentury. Despite being a late-industrialized country, the general trends observed in Brazil in inequalities can shed light on similar developments in other societies, and this Special Issue aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the persistent and deepening inequalities worldwide.

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Author Biographies

Celi Scalon, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

PhD in Sociology at the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj), Brazil. Professor of Sociology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Fernando Tavares Júnior, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.

PhD in Sociology at the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj), Brazil. Professor of Sociology, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Sin Yi Cheung, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

Professor of Sociology. Co-Director of Research at the School of Social Sciences of Cardiff University.

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