Social classes

This book provides a comprehensive overview of caste in contemporary India.

Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's "e;forms of appearance.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of caste in contemporary India.

Originally published in 1960, the authors of Family and Kinship in East London then made an intensive study of a middle-class dormitory suburb.

Exploring the British Indian model minority discourse, this book is the first empirical and theoretical examination of high achieving British Indian students' lived experiences of schooling, education, teaching, and learning.

Completely updated guide to the laws governing homeowners associations in Florida.

A practical and popular guide to operating a successful condominium association in Florida.

Lukas erfuhr erst vor kurzem durch den Anruf eines Unbekannten, dass sein Vater für das Regime spioniert hat.

Subculture in the 21st Century is a key text for all students of sociology and cultural studies.

"e;A balanced and thorough look at the United States' most important contemporary race issues, with timely content and excellent supporting documentation.

The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young people and how social class is made and remade.

First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences.

In Members Only Diana Kendall shows how the upper classes use exclusive clubs as their private domain for conducting business, fostering social networks, and launching the next generation of elites - all beyond the view of outsiders and the media.

How does one become a member of an elite profession?

This new edition contextualizes Lareau's original ethnography in a discussion of the most pressing issues facing educators at the beginning of the new millennium.

How social class determines who lands the best jobsAmericans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs.

A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents?

A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class?

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men.

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilienceConventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes are a force for democracy.

A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeedCollege has long been viewed as an opportunity for advancement and mobility for talented students regardless of background.

A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face.

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Dalit women are mostly deprived, socially excluded, less literate, absentee of property rights, and less empowerment socially and economically.

Women have very low status in the male dominated Indian society.

In India, the Dalits constitute over 16.

The continuous practice of untouchability, other caste-based discrimination, violence against Dalit men, women, and children, and other abuses are in violation of numerous domestic and international laws a cruel reality.

The Dalit Buddhist movement (dubbed as Navayana by certain Ambedkerites) is a 19th and 20th-century Buddhist revival movement in India.

Historically it has been very hard to change the structure of caste politics in India.

Over one-sixth of India's population, some 170 million people, live a precarious existence, shunned by much of Indian society because of their rank as -untouchables- or Dalits literally meaning -broken- people-at the bottom of India's caste system.

Sixty-eight years after India's independence, the Dalit community continues to be oppressed.

Dalits represent a community of 170 million in India, constituting 17% of the population.

A lawyer and a politician, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar left a deep impression on Indian society for at least three main reasons: he had a major influence on drawing up the Constitution of India; he introduced persons regarded as 'untouchables' into the centre of Indian political life; and, finally, he initiated a renewal of Buddhism in India.

The cancerous tumour of caste system of our society would be cured, and the society would become one.

This is a comprehensive volume describing historical background of the movement of the scheduled castes in South India for freedom and social justice, and further covering peasant movements, peasant struggles, agrarian revolts, non-cooperation movement, unrest in A.

The book consists of well-written, well analysed and well research material of eight chapters in a comprehensive way with caste system : early stages, evolution of castes, castes in India, social reforms, caste system in modern India, caste determines social status, etc.

The Title 'Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (Constitution) written/authored/edited by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva', published in the year 2002.

The Title 'Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (Education), 10Th written/authored/edited by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva', published in the year 2002.

The Title Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (Movements) written/authored/edited by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva, published in the year 2002.

The Title 'Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (Leaders) written/authored/edited by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva', published in the year 2002.

The Title 'Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (Women) written/authored/edited by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva', published in the year 2002.

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain.

This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality.

Infrastructure projects sometimes physically displace households and disrupt income sources and livelihoods.

This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed "e;urban villages"e; as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities.