Social classes

Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is reproduced.

Temperatism is more than a bleeding heart version of the capitalist ideal.

Originally published in 1972 Diversity and Choice in Higher Education focuses on the diversity of institutions and the corresponding notion that students should be allowed to choose freely between them, regardless of distance from home.

An all-too-popular explanation for why black students aren't doing better in school is their own use of the "e;acting white"e; slur to ridicule fellow blacks for taking advanced classes, doing schoolwork, and striving to earn high grades.

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society's hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division.

Lost Childhood explores the everyday lives of street children in India.

The broad chronological sweep and comprehensive nature of Reconsidering Southern Labor History set this volume apart from any other collection on the topic in the past forty years.

A comprehensive examination of social mobility and education in Britain that exposes prevailing misconceptions of social mobility in decline.

How as a society can we find ways of ensuring the people who are the most vulnerable or have little voice can avail themselves of the protection in law to improve their social, cultural, health and economic outcomes as befits civilised society?

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?

Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society, this new edition of Power and Inequality provides a unique mix of theoretical and empirical pieces, such as state and electoral politics, that address both classic issues in political sociology and more recent developments, such as globalization.

Originally published in 1991, this volume represents the first systematic attempt to apply a pattern approach to a comprehensive longitudinal investigation.

This book explores the relationship between race and class among middle-class Christians in South Africa.

After Pinochet's dictatorship ended in Chile in 1990, the country experienced a rapid decline in poverty along with a quickly growing economy.

The impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade.

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is a major contribution to our understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America's social, economic, and political reality.

Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history.

First published in 1929, this book was intended to explain, "e;with documentary evidence"e;, the main principles and ideas for which Gandhi had stood over the course of his career up until that point.

This book presents a true picture of rural Assam where people are logged down deep in indebtedness, rural poverty, illiteracy and ignorance.

A town is in turmoil.

Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women.

Dalit is a designation for a group of people traditionally regarded as untouchable.

The Policy-making Process (1969) studies the relationships between the Conservative Government of 1956 and the organised industrial groups that were considered its natural allies in the aftermath of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act of 1956.

Mobile phones are widely viewed as the information and communication technology that holds the most promise for bridging global digital divides.

The Manager's Guide to Industrial Relations (1968) traces the origins and evolution of the attitudes of managers and men from the beginning of industrialization to the Fawley Agreement.

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South.

Charts the transitions in African American literature and culture that took shape after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance.

Diversity in Architecture: Intersectionality, Affective Politics, and Creating Change explores diversity in architecture through an intersectional lens.

Since Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures was originally published in 2000, new findings in Asian Pacific American sports have come to light.

The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families' children have taken through their lives so far: from their early years to their current position as young adults, with care, in its multiple dimensions and timescales - past, present and future - as the unifying thread.

Change and Disruption: Sociology of the Future draws on classical and modern sociological theory to identify recent and emerging trends in the global system.

Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress.

The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families' children have taken through their lives so far: from their early years to their current position as young adults, with care, in its multiple dimensions and timescales - past, present and future - as the unifying thread.

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

Indian society has a rich diversity.

This book investigates the social and political implications of the US multiracial population, which has surged in recent decades.

Inclusion and Exclusion of Young Adult Migrants in Europe presents analyses of research carried out during the course of the EUMARGINS research project, exploring the inclusion and exclusion of young adult immigrants across a range national contexts, including the Nordic welfare states, old colonial countries, Southern European nations and the Eastern European region.

The economic crisis has brought about a watershed in institutional, political, and social relations, reshaping the labour market and the class structure in southern Europe.

The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century demonstrates exactly how the corporate rich developed and implemented the policies and created the government structures that allowed them to dominate the United States.

Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than eight million radio listeners.

It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies.

First published in 1939, this book sets out to refute some of the 'unjust charges laid at India's door' and correct the 'false impressions' that prevailed at the time.

In recent years, mob attacks on women by men have drawn public attention to an emerging social phenomenon.

First published in 1984.

Originally published in 1970 Social Planning Techniques for Town Planners introduces social research methods for town planners.

"e;Published Under the Garamond ImprintFrom the Introduction:"e;"e;This book proposes a substantial revision of the orthodox Marxist approach to understanding group consciousness and action.

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty.