Social classes

';This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness.

In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty.

The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa.

From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment.

How far have we really progressedtowardgenderequality intheUnited States?

Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below.

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This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan.

An examination of the rise of Hindu nationalism in India.

A fascinating account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England.

A groundbreaking history of nobles in Central Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Examines how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty.

Explores how parents seek to increase their children''s chances of educational success and occupational advancement.

An examination of South Korea''s and Taiwan''s economic successes and Argentina''s and Mexico''s relative ''failures'' through their rural middle classes.

This 2005 book surveys six different approaches to the analysis of class, exploring the range of views on this important topic.

The Moral Significance of Class, first published in 2005, analyses the moral aspects of people''s experience of class inequalities.

This is an innovative study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain.

This book presents a systematic study of social stratification processes in urban China, from 1949 to 1994.

A social and cultural history of ''dishonourable people'' (unehrliche Leute) in early modern Germany.

This text analyses the changing nature of inequality in Australia.

This book addresses the personal effects of poverty, social deprivation and inequality using a phenomenological approach.

Joel Beinin''s book offers a survey of subaltern history in the Middle East.

This textbook provides a lively exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding contemporary social issues.

This 1999 book examines the emergence and ramifications of class in an urban setting in Papua New Guinea.

An account of the modernisation and development of the English state in the seventeenth century.

The landmark book that changed the way exceptional families think about their heritage, their wealth, and their legacy to future generations--now revised and expanded.

The landmark book that changed the way exceptional families think about their heritage, their wealth, and their legacy to future generations--now revised and expanded.

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking place in Chinese cities.

Originally published in 1982 The Strategy of Equality examines public expenditure on the social services as a strategy for promoting social equality.

Originally published in 1982 The Strategy of Equality examines public expenditure on the social services as a strategy for promoting social equality.

Originally published in 1973, Paupers looks at poverty through the lens of class and the Welfare State.

Originally published in 1973, Paupers looks at poverty through the lens of class and the Welfare State.

Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class.

Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class.

Originally published in 1981, Automatic Poverty provides a much-needed alternative to the Radical Right's analysis.

Originally published in 1981, Automatic Poverty provides a much-needed alternative to the Radical Right's analysis.

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

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

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.

Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy arose dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to the subject of welfare responsibilities in the state.

Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy arose dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to the subject of welfare responsibilities in the state.

Originally published in 1973, Social Security and Society examines of the dominant forces that form the British social security system and argues that social security provision is not the result of concern felt by the dominant groups in society.

Originally published in 1973, Social Security and Society examines of the dominant forces that form the British social security system and argues that social security provision is not the result of concern felt by the dominant groups in society.

Originally published in 1984, Privatisation and the Welfare State brings together a distinguished set of experts on the Welfare State and its main policy areas of health care, housing, education and transport.

Originally published in 1984, Privatisation and the Welfare State brings together a distinguished set of experts on the Welfare State and its main policy areas of health care, housing, education and transport.

Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

Originally published in 1987 Pressure for the Poor looks at the debate surrounding the role of pressure groups in policy making.

Originally published in 1987 Pressure for the Poor looks at the debate surrounding the role of pressure groups in policy making.