Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women who were active in segregationist grassroots activism in Little Rock, New Orleans, and Charleston from the late 1940s to the late 1960s.
In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City.
Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women who were active in segregationist grassroots activism in Little Rock, New Orleans, and Charleston from the late 1940s to the late 1960s.
HarperCollins is proud to present this masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp, as part of our range of timeless literary classics.
For the quality of its research and the clarity of its synthesis, The Rise of Respectable Society will gain a reputation as an outstanding reinterpretation of the Victorian period.
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.
Many believe that the urban underclass in America is a large, rapidly increasing proportion of the population; that crime, teenage pregnancy, and high school dropout rates are escalating; and that welfare rolls are exploding.
Un encadrant technique d’insertion joue le rôle d’un chef d’orchestre particulier, non pas à la tête d’un orchestre symphonique, mais d’une équipe de personnes éloignées de l’emploi en raison de difficultés sociales ou personnelles.
In seinem Bestseller »Der Osten: eine westdeutsche Erfindung« (2023) thematisiert Dirk Oschmann die fremde, oft degradierende Perspektive der Alt- auf die Neu-Bundesbürger.
Después de sus aportaciones a la sociología contemporánea, mediante las cuales este destacado investigador ha definido las inestabilidades de las relaciones humanas y de los propios individuos como "la modernidad líquida", el autor nos entrega esta crítica de la cultura del consumo de las sociedades actuales.
The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first timeMiles Franklin s debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn closely modelled on Franklin herself as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life.
Dilemas en movimiento dialoga con varias de las interpretaciones disponibles sobre uno de los episodios más relevantes de la historia reciente en Colombia: el estallido social de 2021.
El libro recopila más de quinientas frases que surgieron en las calles de Santiago y otras ciudades de Chile durante las protestas de 2019 en pleno estallido social, reflejando las aspiraciones del pueblo por dignidad y justicia.
"La pregunta de Octubre" es una obra que analiza histórica y críticamente la fundación, apogeo y crisis del neoliberalismo chileno para comprender las causas que llevaron al surgimiento de la revuelta popular en Chile en octubre del año 2019.
La obra posiciona la discusión en la relación entre el trabajo y la producción de subjetividad, considerando las temáticas como producción, división del trabajo, salud mental y explotación en sus nuevas formas que han transitado en las instituciones
Este libro analiza las poblaciones de Santiago de Chile desde 1950 al 2000, revelando cómo los pobladores han desafiado los paradigmas de la propiedad y del Estado, y también lo que ha significado la extensión de la propiedad privada
A lo largo de tres décadas de trasnsformaciones, si tuviéramos éxito, la Argentina debería definirse por las siguientes características:- Abolición de la propiedad privada- Elevadísimo desarrollo tecnológico- Jornada de 6 horas para todos- Treinta y cinco años de vida laboral total- 90 años de expectativa de vida- Salud, vivienda y educación aseguradas desde el minuto uno de vida- Pobreza cera- Desocupación cero- Educación universitaria obligatoria- Todos los cargos políticos electivos y revocables- Administración mínima- Participación plena de la población en todas las decisiones importantes de la vida socialEstos elementos son los que hacen posible lo que denominamos una ¨buena vida¨.
In contrast to much of the current literature that treats Trump's authoritarianism as new and singular, this book shows that authoritarianism in the United States instead has a long history that explains the extent to which authoritarianism has been embraced by large sections of US voters.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard'A full-throated defence of the inherent value of making, experiencing and talking about art' Frieze'Let me stay there, let me paint.
In the early twentieth century, the idea that man can and should be self-reliant and enterprising, the so-called Protestant ethic, was a major factor in the development of modern science, technology, business, education and organization.
This book offers an in-depth examination of how family background shapes inequalities in children's academic performance and cognitive skill development in China.
In contrast to much of the current literature that treats Trump's authoritarianism as new and singular, this book shows that authoritarianism in the United States instead has a long history that explains the extent to which authoritarianism has been embraced by large sections of US voters.
In the early twentieth century, the idea that man can and should be self-reliant and enterprising, the so-called Protestant ethic, was a major factor in the development of modern science, technology, business, education and organization.
This book offers an in-depth examination of how family background shapes inequalities in children's academic performance and cognitive skill development in China.
In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation.
Visual Mythologies in Education examines how schools reproduce privilege and disadvantage through an analysis of the visual imagery in their promotional materials.
Visual Mythologies in Education examines how schools reproduce privilege and disadvantage through an analysis of the visual imagery in their promotional materials.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emergence and development of sociological thought in China since the late Qing dynasty, addressing the fundamental question of how to understand Chinese society and experience.
