Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-

Collateral damage : social inequalities in a global age / Zygmunt Bauman. - Cambridge, UK ; Polity, 2011. - 182 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and index.

Introduction: collateral damage of social inequality -- From the agora to the marketplace -- Requiem for communism -- The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times -- Strangers are dangers ... are they indeed? -- Consumerism and morality -- Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity -- Luck and the individualization of remedies -- Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question -- A natural history of evil -- Wir arme Leut' ... -- Sociology: whence and whither?

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Equality.
Poverty--Social aspects.