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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2008 1(1):89-113; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsm003
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Poverty and inequality across space: sociological reflections on the missing-middle subnational scale*

Linda M. Lobao*, Gregory Hooks{dagger} and Ann R. Tickamyer{ddagger}

* Department of Human and Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University, Enarson Hall 154W 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. lobao.1{at}osu.edu
{dagger} Department of Sociology, Washington State University, PO Box 644020, Pullman, WA 99164, USA. ghooks{at}wsu.edu
{ddagger} Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA. tickamye{at}ohio.edu


  Abstract

The study of stratification is a foremost concern of sociologists. Historical engagement with this topic creates a distinct conceptual lens on poverty and inequality and a voluminous body of empirical work that set sociology apart from economics and to some degree, geography. At the same time, the discipline is limited in developing a spatial understanding of stratification processes. In this article, we put forth a critique of sociological research on poverty and other inequalities across space. We focus on a disciplinary impasse, the lack of a coherent, well-developed tradition at the subnational or regional scale. Drawing from research on the United States, we address how sociologists are making inroads against this impasse, in an emergent body of work.

Keywords: inequality, poverty, regional scale, sociology, stratification, subnational scale

Received on March 20, 2007. Accepted on October 3, 2007.

JEL Classifications: I3, J60, R11, R40


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