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Inequality and the Social Imagination

Class, Culture, and Power in Everyday Life

By Dr. Saira Siddiqui

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Lumina Literati Publishing
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2026 · First edition
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Inequality and the Social Imagination examines how class, culture, and power shape ordinary encounters and the possibilities people learn to imagine. Dr. Saira Siddiqui traces the social meanings attached to taste, language, respectability, and belonging, and considers how schools, workplaces, families, and the state reproduce unequal treatment.

Across five chapters, the book connects these everyday processes with the emotional experience of shame, dignity, desire, and resentment. It questions the promise that individual mobility alone can resolve structural inequality, then explores institutions, cultural democracy, and collective imagination as resources for a more equal social life. The discussion invites readers to connect personal experience with social relationships and to reconsider what equality requires in practice.

Inside the book

  1. 01

    The Everyday Architecture of Inequality

    How Social Difference Becomes Common Sense

  2. 02

    Classed Culture

    Taste, Respectability, Language, and the Politics of Belonging

  3. 03

    Institutions of Everyday Power

    Schools, Workplaces, Families, and the State

  4. 04

    The Emotional Life of Inequality

    Shame, Dignity, Desire, and Resentment

  5. 05

    Reimagining Equality

    From Private Aspiration to Collective Possibility

About the author

Dr. Saira Siddiqui

Dr. Saira Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan, with over a decade of experience in teaching and curriculum development. She is the author or co-author of several works, including Sustainability and Law in the Third World (co-authored with Kashif Lodhi), Community Development Failures in Pakistan: A Sociological Analysis and Pathways to Improvement, and Cultural Values about Gender Inequality, Equity, Social Justice and their Implications for Women’s Health in Rural Punjab, Pakistan.

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