Social classes

Society is a system of human organizations generating distinctive cultural patterns,, and institutions and institutions providing protection, secure, continuity and a national identity for its members.

The book's central focus explores several "e;myths"e; associated with American entrepreneurship: the idea that small business owners are "e;job creators"e;; that entrepreneurs are the "e;backbone"e; or "e;engine"e; of the economy; that entrepreneurship provides a path of economic mobility for immigrants, ethnic and racial minorities, and women; that the Horatio Algiers "e;rags to riches"e; story is possible for anyone willing to work hard.

As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks-such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics-what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future?

This book explores resilience, social capital and relationships of power in an examination of the manner in which capital can be converted from one form to another.

Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practiceMost Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich to pay more.

After the end of America's longest (20-year) war in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost more than $6 trillion and nearly half a million lives, what does the future hold for America and the American people in the 21st century?

First published in 1985, this book presents the first detailed account of the relationship between the farmworkers, trades unionism, and political and social radicalism.

The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and presents the breadth of a growing and vital subfield of anthropology.

Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India's middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project.

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship.

The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice.

Drawing on several years of research with grief support organizations and the families and friends of murdered children, this book examines the emotional experience of families in the aftermath of a homicide.

Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.

Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Industrial Relations in the Public Services (1989) assesses the changes in industrial relations following Thatcher's 1979 election in three particular parts of the public sector: local authorities, the national health service and the civil service.

First published in 1968, Jane Austen's Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen's last completed novel.

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

In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.

This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues.

First published in 1981.

Academic interest in cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the necessity for cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling.

Since the 1980s, the relationship between social class and education has been overshadowed by scholarship more generally targeting issues of race, gender, and representation.

Marxism is a theory which originated in the context of nineteenth-century industrialised Europe.

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods?

This title was first published in 2001.

The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy.

Originally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society.

Society is a system of human organizations generating distinctive cultural patterns,, and institutions and institutions providing protection, secure, continuity and a national identity for its members.

First published in 2001.

News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never before.

Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who share a common civic status.

Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II.

First published in 1968, Jane Austen's Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen's last completed novel.

An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill-specifically the distinction between the "e;skilled"e; and "e;unskilled"e;-is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human?

Management by Agreement (1973) examines the ramifications of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act and industrial relations in Britain.

This book, first published in 1984, brings together three essays written by specialists in German history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries whose important work is little known to English-speaking historians.

Originally published in 1992, this book places Cypriot migration to Britain within the context of New Commonwealth migration as a whole and within developments in the field of racial and ethnic relations.

In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era.

Rising exclusion rates indicate the continuing marginalisation of many young people in education in the UK.

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Britain is one of the most unequal countries in the western world: the richest one per cent own a vast proportion of the wealth, while both the pay gap and spending habits remain incredibly divisive.

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozenessaysand pieces of reporting from his long career.

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It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity.

Originally published in 1968, Social Security: Beveridge and After concentrates on the development of social security in the U.

It was almost November 2012 when Hurricane Sandy, a late arrival in an otherwise quiet tropical season, slammed into the Mid-Atlantic US coastline.

Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a modern identity.

Against John Ogbu's oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele's disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.