Social classes

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

Social exclusion is a subject of major importance in contemporary social work and has been a core feature of social policy developments in the UK and Europe in the past decade.

For courses in Inequality, Social Stratification, and Social Problems.

This book presents studies from across Latin America to take up the challenge of exploring the plurality of social inequalities from a global perspective.

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

Women who work as prostitutes are struggling against a disadvantaged position in society.

Originally published in 1915, this pioneer study has long occupied an important place in the literature of sociology.

Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference.

Originally published in 1915 in the middle of World War I, Carpenter explores the effects that the war was having on society and humankind as a whole from first-hand experience.

The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it.

Seven decades since Indian Independence, education takes the centre stage in every major discussion on development, especially when we talk about social exclusion, Dalits and reservations today.

This tenth of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development.

Whenever any country faces difficult situations, challenges, whether it is a political or economical, the intellectuals and politcians at some point or another need to search their own country's history for the solutions.

Museums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies.

First published in 1987.

Providing a historical development of the UK education system and its policies, Alex McInch offers insight on how structural decisions impact how working-class pupils view and navigate the educational field.

Far-Right Fantasy is a straight-forward, jargon-free study of contemporary American right-wing extremism.

First published in 1977, Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive investigates the process of the transformation of Western society in the twentieth century.

This poignant book examines poverty, wealth and inequality in the UK, and provides insight into its history, its present-day forms and possible routes to its eradication.

Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes.

This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools.

Aneurin Bevan is a revered figure in Welsh and British politics, celebrated for his role as the founder of one of the country's most cherished institutions, the National Health Service.

The continuous practice of untouchability, other caste-based discrimination, violence against Dalit men, women, and children, and other abuses are in violation of numerous domestic and international laws a cruel reality.

This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan.

First published in 1986.

A unique qualitative study of race and economic and social mobility across generations for seven families from the Mississippi Delta.

Originally published in 1987, Regenerating the Inner City looks at the changes to Glasgow's East End and how industrial closures and slum clearance projects have caused people to leave.

This book is a study of class formation at the top of the social hierarchies during the turbulent and changing early twenty-first century.

On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war.

In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies.

What makes curating feminist organizing?

International and Comparative Industrial Relations (1987) analyses the factors which have shaped industrial relations in a range of different countries, including the characteristics of the major groups and parties concerned, and the nature and types of bargaining relationships which have evolved.

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

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Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice.

A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing-how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can help both students and universities.

What does it mean to be marginalized?

Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale.

Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn't increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as 'mixed' actually embodied?

Industrial Relations in the Modern State (1937) provides an introduction, as objective as possible in character, to the differing policies of 1930s liberal and totalitarian states in the matter of industrial relations.

This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology.

Traditionally academia has been seen as an elite profession, for those with an academic background and from the middle/upper classes.

First published in 1995.

This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative, and policy dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian context.

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.

Originally published in 1981, French Cities in the Nineteenth Century analyses large-scale processes of social change, and looks at how this affected the growth of towns and cities of nineteenth century France.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Arbeiterklasse in Asien und Afrika" verfügbar.

Anti-consumerism has become a conspicuous part of contemporary activism and popular culture, from 'culture jams' and actions against Esso and Starbucks, through the downshifting and voluntary simplicity movements, the rise of ethical consumption and organic and the high profile of films and books like Supersize Me!

Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference.