Social classes

Choice Recommended Title, February 2010Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality.

In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.

In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.

This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research.

This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research.

As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population.

As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population.

The social sciences rely more on the comparative method than on experimental data mainly because the latter is difficult to acquire amongst human populations.

The social sciences rely more on the comparative method than on experimental data mainly because the latter is difficult to acquire amongst human populations.

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations.

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations.

Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies.

Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies.

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.

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.

White working-class experiences of South Africa''s transition provide a reinterpretation of how class colours race in the era of neoliberalism.

White working-class experiences of South Africa''s transition provide a reinterpretation of how class colours race in the era of neoliberalism.

It explores the formation of India''s rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas.

Race, more than class or any other factor, determines who wins and who loses in American democracy.

Race, more than class or any other factor, determines who wins and who loses in American democracy.

Shows the ''moral economy'' of early medieval England transformed by ''feudal thinking'' in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.

This is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

Offers an examination of an African middle class, demonstrating how it is both bound to the state and alienated from it.

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

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

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

Examines the results of the Middle Eastern oil boom of the 1970s–80s on the Egyptian economy and how this economic growth has an impact on Egyptian society.

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.

This book illustrates African American writers'' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.

Examines the results of the Middle Eastern oil boom of the 1970s–80s on the Egyptian economy and how this economic growth has an impact on Egyptian society.

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

This book illustrates African American writers'' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.

This is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

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

Offers an examination of an African middle class, demonstrating how it is both bound to the state and alienated from it.

This book is the first and only systematic, broad study of the history and character of American working-class literature.

This book is the first and only systematic, broad study of the history and character of American working-class literature.

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

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

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

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

Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

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 Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman .

Demonstrates the persistence of realism''s characteristic concerns – sympathy, melodrama, gender and class – in the most aesthetically innovative works of modernist fiction.