Social classes

Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning.

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about the constructions of American nationhood and national citizenship, the frequently invoked concept of divided sovereignty signified the division of power between state and federal authorities and/or the possibility of one nation residing within the geopolitical boundaries of another.

What it means for global sustainability when environmentalism is dominated by the concerns of the affluent—eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation.

Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban.

An evaluative examination that challenges the media to rise above the systematic racism and sexism that persists across all channels, despite efforts to integrate.

Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values.

Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society.

Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education focuses on preparing educators who use socioculturally sustaining practices, curricula, and instruction through an intersectional lens.

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.

Aunque para muchos líderes políticos, periodistas o académicos hablar de la clase obrera en la actualidad resulte un anacronismo y esté pasado de moda, este libro pretende reivindicar la vigencia social y la importancia política de una clase que tiene en sus manos la posibilidad de la transformación social, aunque no siempre sea consciente de ello.

Every year thousands of people compete for employment in the UK.

One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America.

In 1962, a newly-minted college graduate answered the call of President John F.

What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States?

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain.

Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society.

This is an abridged version of the Anarchist Encyclopedia.

*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*'Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised world' The TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.

This book is an in-depth study which examines the lives of fifty ambitious Latino/a high school seniors in the San Francisco East Bay Area, following their entrance into college and career pathways over several years.

White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation.

At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world's melting pot.

While Native Americans are perhaps the most studied people in our society, they too often remain the least understood and visible.

How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us allIn today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "e;yellow peril"e; to "e;model minorities"e;--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present.

Mahoney examines how the middle class from across the great West were transformed by years of recession and civil war.

First published in 1989, The Goals of Social Policy is an invaluable text that will give students an admirable introduction to the central concerns of the study of social policy.

';Portrays the vitality and dynamism of indigenous actors in what is arguably one of the most foundational and central zones in the making of modern world history: the Caribbean.

Which books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them?

In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever, some individuals are choosing to marry across class.

The Economic Analysis of Unions (1986) thoroughly examines a range of theoretical and empirical literature on the economics of labour unions.

From African American pilots being asked to carry people's luggage to patrons refusing drinks from African American flight attendants, Cabin Pressure demonstrates that racism is still very much alive in the "e;friendly skies.

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

Future Primitive is Zerzan's iconic and long out-of-print work.

Attitudes are evaluations of people, places, things, and ideas.

As football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation.

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art - as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects - and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour.

Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society.

Building upon the author's integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally-linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities, to show how the synthesis of theories from postmodern social constructionism, multiculturalism, and international organization empowerment can be applied when working with Asian immigrant families.

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'Full of warmth, humour, optimism and sometimes painful honesty' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Anyone who's ever struggled to make sense of who they are and where they belong should read this book' NADIA WHITTOME MP'An important voice of our generation' PARMINDER NAGRA'This guy has better Punjabi than both of us and he's only half Punjabi.

Around the world lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer individuals are subjected to violence and intimidation based on their real or perceived sexuality, gender identity or expression.

Drawing on a variety of sources, ranging from interviews with key figures to unpublished archival material, Saban Halis Calis traces this ambition back to the 1930s.

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

In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor.

China's commercial film industry can be used as a map to understand how class is interwoven into the imaginations that inform and influence social change in Chinese society.