Social classes

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.

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

Reconfiguring the lines between literature and psychoanalysis, this book argues that to alleviate poverty we engage with its psychic life.

Reconfiguring the lines between literature and psychoanalysis, this book argues that to alleviate poverty we engage with its psychic life.

This book uses a variety of frameworks to provide readers with ways into understanding Don DeLillo''s prodigious body of work.

This book uses a variety of frameworks to provide readers with ways into understanding Don DeLillo''s prodigious body of work.

Originally published in 1987, Malcolm Hill examines the different ways in which parents share responsibility for looking after their pre-school children with other people, whether members of their social networks, formal groups or paid carers.

Originally published in 1987, Malcolm Hill examines the different ways in which parents share responsibility for looking after their pre-school children with other people, whether members of their social networks, formal groups or paid carers.

Drawing on primary qualitative research, this book explores the experiences and identities of a group of British-born women of Bangladeshi background attending university in London through a Bourdieusian theoretical framework.

Drawing on primary qualitative research, this book explores the experiences and identities of a group of British-born women of Bangladeshi background attending university in London through a Bourdieusian theoretical framework.

Originally published in 1966, this is a sociological study of boys growing up in East London.

Originally published in 1966, this is a sociological study of boys growing up in East London.

The book analyses how lines of (non)belonging are traced and how notions of (non)belonging circulate around and are attached to students from immigrant backgrounds.

The book analyses how lines of (non)belonging are traced and how notions of (non)belonging circulate around and are attached to students from immigrant backgrounds.

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK.

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK.

This leading, comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the last edition (2015), just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more.

This leading, comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the last edition (2015), just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more.

This book explores the dynamics of the "e;middle-class global rebellion"e; born of the frustration at declining living standards.

This book explores the dynamics of the "e;middle-class global rebellion"e; born of the frustration at declining living standards.

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate.

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate.

The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality in the twenty-first century.

Drawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu's social space theory, this book provides an unprecedent overview of class relations, covering topics such as class polarisation, cultural reproduction, political orientations, and globalisation.

Drawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu's social space theory, this book provides an unprecedent overview of class relations, covering topics such as class polarisation, cultural reproduction, political orientations, and globalisation.

The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality in the twenty-first century.

This collection contributes to an understanding of queer theory as a "e;queer share,"e; addressing the urgent need to redistribute resources in a university world characterized by stark material disparities and embedded gendered, racial, national, and class inequities.

This collection contributes to an understanding of queer theory as a "e;queer share,"e; addressing the urgent need to redistribute resources in a university world characterized by stark material disparities and embedded gendered, racial, national, and class inequities.

This volume addresses the contested relationship between social stratification and social movements in three different ways: First, the authors address the relationship between social stratification and the emergence of protest mobilization.

This volume addresses the contested relationship between social stratification and social movements in three different ways: First, the authors address the relationship between social stratification and the emergence of protest mobilization.

Why have statelessness and contemporary enslavement become endemic since the 1990s?