Social classes

This concise, clear, accessible book is meant to truly engage students by using personal stories, solid research, and key theories that illustrate how sociologists look at life, the way we understand social dynamics, what "e;socially constructed"e; means, and how a sociological sensibility can, ultimately, be liberating.

Peabody Awardwinning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.

Sympathy for the poor and resentment of the rich are widespread, and they influence Americans'' political preferences.

An examination of the rise of Hindu nationalism in India.

Andrew Collier analyses recent cooperation between Christianity and Marxism after earlier years of antagonism.

This text analyses the changing nature of inequality in Australia.

This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington, D.

Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon.

Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers.

Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our "e;common ground"e; - that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of mutual solidarity.

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found in the human ecology perspective.

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality.

First published in 1993, this book presents a biography of a central figure in the development of both the labour movement and British politics in the first half of the twentieth century.

Gender, Race, and Class is a critical overview of these three well-known dimensions of the social world.

"e;The rise of the West"e; has long been the accepted doctrine for framing analyses of world history.

This book is about the causes and consequences of economic inequality in the advanced market economies of today.

Civil war in the United States is now a mainstream topic due to apparent signs of ongoing planning.

First published in 1997, this book revolves around a textual analysis of the Weberian thesis that 'classes', 'status groups' and 'parties' are phenomena of the distribution of power within a 'community'.

Originally published in 1972, this book aimed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the main theories of social stratification and to acquaint them with current methods of research, with the results from modern research (with emphasis on British research), and with current issues in this field.

The Obama presidency represented a major milestone in African American history.

Originally published in 1972, The Purchase of Paradise is an account of medieval philanthropy and looks at the late medieval aristocracy as a social, rather than political group.

Exploring white privilege is an enterprise few of us who identify as white have attempted.

This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates.

Class in the New Millennium paints a fresh and comprehensive picture of social class in Britain today.

Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy arose dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to the subject of welfare responsibilities in the state.

The Philippines is among the most successful migrant-sending nations in the world, both lauded and critiqued for exporting its own citizens to a global labor market.

Originally published in 1970, Social Class, Language and Communication explores the different effects of parental social class, the ability and sex of the child and a measure of the mother's reported communication to her child, upon aspects of five-year-old children's speech.

"e;How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance even after three decades.

Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society.

As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging.

Based on extensive survey data, this book examines how the population of Japan has experienced and processed three decades of rapid social change from the highly egalitarian high growth economy of the 1980s to the economically stagnating and demographically shrinking gap society of the 2010s.

THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"e;Powerful and timely .

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A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history.

A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years.

Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class subculture that enabled working men to resist the full consolidation of middle-class hegemony.

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet.

While extensive attention has been paid to black youth, adult black British men are a notable omission in academic literature.

Explores the impact of social standing on the careers of senators and knights in the Roman Empire.

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook on Aging and Work is a comprehensive resource for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking a broad overview of interrelated topics concerning the aging workforce or insightful discussions of specific issues and challenges facing people in the demographic.

Drawing upon quantitative data gathered from the U.

Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism.

Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped the contours of global capitalism.

An introductory account of the concept of class stratification, of contemporary approaches to the study of class, and of current debates about its role in the study of society.

Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception.

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.

Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility.

The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate.

This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society.