Global Handbook of Inequality

Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Nehru University, India. He received his MA in sociology from Pune University and PhD in sociology from Panjab University, Chandigarh (India). Before joining Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2006 he taught at the University of Hyderabad and Panjab University. He researches on different dimensions of social inequalities – old and new – and the processes of their reproduction. The empirical foci of his work have been the dynamics of caste; studies of agrarian social change and contemporary rural India; and the political sociology of community identities. He has authored/edited 17 books and has published nearly 100 research papers. He is among the first recipients of the Indian Council of Social Science Research-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, for the year 2012. Boike Rehbein is Professor of Society and Transformation at Humboldt University Berlin. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University of Freiburg, and was assistant and associate professor of sociology at the University of Freiburg. He has been full professor at Humboldt University since 2009. His areas of specialization are social inequality, social theory, globalization and Southeast Asia. He has published more than 25 books, most of them related to inequality, as well as more than 100 articles. Some of books have been translated into up to four foreign languages.

I. Thinkers and theories.- II. Methods.- III. Dimensions.- IV. Concepts, debates and processes.- VI. World regions.