Overview
- Presents a far-reaching, novel, and interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of egalitarianism
- Offers illustrative and engaging ethnographic case studies
- Investigates, complicates, and critiques ideas of 'Scandinavian exceptionalism'
- Grounded in an examination of Scandinavia but reaches beyond this region in its implications and discussions
Part of the book series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference (ATSIAD)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Tradition of Egalitarianism
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Institutionalizing Egalitarianism
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Egalitarian Welfare?
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Egalitarianism, Inequality, and Difference
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Synnøve Bendixsen is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Mary Bente Bringslid is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Halvard Vike is Professor in the Department of Health, Social, and Welfare Studies at the University College of Southeast Norway, and Senior Researcher at Telemark Research Institute, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Egalitarianism in Scandinavia
Book Subtitle: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Editors: Synnøve Bendixsen, Mary Bente Bringslid, Halvard Vike
Series Title: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59791-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59790-4Published: 06 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86702-1Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59791-1Published: 17 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-305X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 357
Topics: Social Anthropology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnography, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights