only search  About Göran Therborn  Göran Therborn is professor
of sociology at Cambridge University. He is editor and co-author
of Inequalities of the World: New Theoretical Frameworks,
Multiple Empirical Approaches (Verso, 2006). Among his books as
sole author are European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of
European Societies, 1945–2000 (Sage, 1995); Between Sex and
Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 (Routledge, 2004); What
Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? (Verso, 2008), and From
Marxism to Post-Marxism (Verso, 2009)  Articles by Göran
Therborn  This week's editor  NSS, editor   Constitutional
conventions: best practice  The killing-fields of inequality
There are at least three quite different kinds of inequality,
and they are all destructive of human lives and of human
societies.  The first is inequality of health and death, what
might be called vital inequality. Here, hard evidence is
accumulating that health and longevity are distributed with a
clearly discernible social regularity. Childre