HANDBOOK ON SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE BRIC COUNTRIES: CHANGE AND PERSPECTIVE

• Changes in Social Stratification: Social Stratification and Its Transformation in Brazil (C Scalon); Changes in the Social Structure of Russian Society Within a Period of Transformation (Z T Golenkova and M K Gorshkov); Social Stratification and Change in Contemporary India (K L Sharma); Changes in China's Social Stratification Since 1978 (Li Peilin); The Working Class: Labor, Workers, and Politics in Contemporary Brazil: 1980 - 2010 (M A Santana); The Working Class in a Transitional Society: From the Soviet Union to the Russian Republic (Z T Golenkova and E D Igitkhanian); The Urban Industrial Working Class and the Rural Peasant Working Class in India (K L Sharma); The Status Quo and Change to the Working Class in Contemporary China (Li Wei and Tian Feng); Peasants: The Brazilian Peasantry: A History of Resistance (M de Nazareth Baudel Wanderley); The Transformation of the Social Structure in Modern Rural Russia (A A Hagurov); The Differentiation of the Peasantry in India Since Independence (K L Sharma); Rural Society and Peasants in China (Fan Ping); Enterprises and Entrepreneurship: Innovative Entrepreneurship in Brazil (S K Guimaraes); The Development of Entrepreneurship in Russia: Main Trends and the Status Quo (A Chepurenko); Tradition and Entrepreneurship of Indian Private Entrepreneurs (K L Sharma); China's Fledgling Private Entrepreneurs in a Transitional Economy (Chen Guangjin); The Middle Class: The Formation of the Middle Class in Brazil: History and Prospects (A Salata and C Scalon); The Middle Class in Russian Society: Homogeneity or Heterogeneity? (N E Tichonova and S V Mareyeva); The Rise of the Middle Class in India Since Independence (K L Sharma); The Heterogeneous Composition and Multiple Identities of China's Middle Class (Li Chunling); Income Inequality: Income Inequality and Social Stratification in Brazil: Key Determining Factors and Changes in the First Decade of the 21st Century (L G Costa and C Scalon); Income Inequality in Russia (Y Epikhina); Poverty and Income Inequality in India's Urban and Rural Areas (K L Sharma); Structural Characteristics and Trends of Income Inequality in China (Chen Guangjin); Educational Inequality: Educational Inequality and Social Stratification in Brazil (M da Costa, M C Koslinski and L G Costa); Inequality in Education: The Case of Russia (D L Konstantinovskiy); Education and Social Stratification in India: Systematic Inequality (K L Sharma); Educational Inequality and Educational Expansion in China (Li Chunling); Consumption: Beyond Social Stratification: A New Angle on Consumer Practices in Contemporary Brazil (M Castaneda); Consumption and Lifestyle in Russia (P M Kozyreva, A E Nizamova and A I Smirnov); The New Emerging Consumption Class and Their Lifestyles (K L Sharma); The Stratification of Consumption Among Social Classes, Occupational Groups, and Identity Groups in China (Tian Feng); Class Consciousness and Values: Working Class Formation in Brazil: From Unions to State Power (A Cardoso); The Research of Class and Group Consciousness in Contemporary Russian Society (M F Chernysh); Social-Class Connection and Class Identity in Urban and Rural Areas (K L Sharma); Stratum Consciousness and Stratum Identification in China (Li Wei).

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