Social mobility

Addressing a multitude of questions and issues surrounding how we use the media, Media Effects and Beyond represents the results of an international research programme into the use and effects of television, video and music.

Addressing a multitude of questions and issues surrounding how we use the media, Media Effects and Beyond represents the results of an international research programme into the use and effects of television, video and music.

Published in 1998, Adolescent Gangs is a valuable contribution to the field of Counseling and School Therapy.

Published in 1998, Adolescent Gangs is a valuable contribution to the field of Counseling and School Therapy.

The book incorporates three alternative conceptions of class.

The book incorporates three alternative conceptions of class.

Family mobility decisions reveal much about how the public and private realms of social life interact and change.

Family mobility decisions reveal much about how the public and private realms of social life interact and change.

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families.

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families.

The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending.

The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending.

Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy.

Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy.

This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs.

This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs.

A Companion to Border Studies Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies.

A Companion to Border Studies Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies.

In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives.

Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.

Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.

Citizens who benefit from the submerged state fail to see it; citizens who don''t benefit see the state and transform it.

Citizens who benefit from the submerged state fail to see it; citizens who don''t benefit see the state and transform it.

A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail them.

Getting Real About Inequality is a contributed reader for undergraduate courses in Race/Class/Gender, Social Inequality, or the Social Construction of Difference and Inequality.

Getting Real About Inequality is a contributed reader for undergraduate courses in Race/Class/Gender, Social Inequality, or the Social Construction of Difference and Inequality.

The condition known as 'adolescence' is largely an artefact of advance industrial societies.

The condition known as 'adolescence' is largely an artefact of advance industrial societies.

What is the social structure of Chinese society in the 21st century?

What is the social structure of Chinese society in the 21st century?

First published in 1997, Bullying presents a comprehensive overview of the widespread and persistent problem of bullying which results in the anxiety and distress of many thousands of children and young people.

First published in 1997, Bullying presents a comprehensive overview of the widespread and persistent problem of bullying which results in the anxiety and distress of many thousands of children and young people.

This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including 'ethnic entrepreneurs' building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended families; well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future education pathways overseas; and Japanese mothers finding ways to belong in a London middle-class neighbourhood.

This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including 'ethnic entrepreneurs' building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended families; well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future education pathways overseas; and Japanese mothers finding ways to belong in a London middle-class neighbourhood.

First published in 1994, Putting the Family First is a study of better-off couples that clarifies the relationship between individualism and family values.

First published in 1994, Putting the Family First is a study of better-off couples that clarifies the relationship between individualism and family values.

Intergenerational income mobility is of great societal importance due to its relevance to equal socio-economic opportunity and future economic efficiency.

Intergenerational income mobility is of great societal importance due to its relevance to equal socio-economic opportunity and future economic efficiency.

Focusing on Singapore's education system from an equity perspective, Chiong's book describes the often unheard perspectives of socio-economically disadvantaged families in Singapore.

Focusing on Singapore's education system from an equity perspective, Chiong's book describes the often unheard perspectives of socio-economically disadvantaged families in Singapore.

The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted.

The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted.

This book focuses on the creation of new educational environment for youth; youth employment; crime and the juvenile system; health system; trends in health policy in the United states and other western democracies; and new environment for the transition of youth to adulthood.

Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research, this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made for its social significance.

Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research, this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made for its social significance.

This book studies the dynamic aspects of the Human Development Index (HDI) through a partial mobility perspective.

This book studies the dynamic aspects of the Human Development Index (HDI) through a partial mobility perspective.

This book focuses on the creation of new educational environment for youth; youth employment; crime and the juvenile system; health system; trends in health policy in the United states and other western democracies; and new environment for the transition of youth to adulthood.

A unique qualitative study of race and economic and social mobility across generations for seven families from the Mississippi Delta.

The use of race-based affirmative action in higher education has given rise to hundreds of books and law review articles, numerous court decisions, and several state initiatives to ban the practice.