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Along with the fast growing economy, the term "BRICs" was coined to
represent the newly emerging countries - Brazil, Russia, India and
China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved
people's life; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced
the transformation of social structure, norms and values. However,
as the world's attention centers on their economic development at
the micro level, the social changes at the micro level have often
been neglected, and a specific comparative study of these four
countries is even more rare. This handbook's contributing authors
are leading sociologists in the four countries. They fill the gap
in existing literature and examine specifically the changes in each
society from the perspective of social stratification, with topics
covering the main social classes, the inequality of education and
income, and the different styles of consumption as well as the
class consciousness and values. Under every topic, it gathers
articles from authors of each country. Such a comparative study
could not only help us achieve a better understanding of the
economic growth and social development in these countries, but also
lead us to unveil the mystery of how these emerging powers with
dramatic differences in history, geography, culture, language,
religion and politics could share a common will and take joint
action. In general, the handbook takes a unique perspective to show
readers that it is the profound social structural changes in these
countries that determine their future, and to a large extent, will
shape the socio-economic landscape of the future world.
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