Social classes

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

If you want to learn about masculinity, ask a man if he likes to dance.

Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011.

Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011.

Although New England boarding schools have been educating America's elite for four generations, they, along with their privileged students, rarely have been the subject of study.

Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies.

Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy.

Covering the entire period from the colonial era to the late twentieth century, this book is the first scholarly history of the homeless in America.

Lawyer, doctor, scientist--these are the jobs Americans commonly cite when asked to list the most prestigious occupations.

Status and Sacredness provides a new theory of status and sacral relationships and a provocative reinterpretation of the Indian caste system and Hinduism.

The social role of intellectuals was a pervasive motif in Weber's thought, particularly in his works on religion and politics.

A radical new interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American Thinking Class envisions the Bay colony as a seventeenth century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological 'cells' and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates.

"e;A herd of independent minds,"e; Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals.

Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history.

Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history.

In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power.

In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power.

The challenge of how to ensure that working families see their living standards improve over time is central in rich countries.

The challenge of how to ensure that working families see their living standards improve over time is central in rich countries.

We live in a world obsessed by luxury.

We live in a world obsessed by luxury.

Elites have a disproportionate impact on development outcomes.

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.

Defenders of the Motherland studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges posed by the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Defenders of the Motherland studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges posed by the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history.

The Irish Establishment examines who the most powerful men and women were in Ireland between the Land War and the beginning of the Great War, and considers how the composition of elite society changed during this period.

It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of domini-lords.

Exploring the origins of 'middle-class' status in the English provinces during a formative period of social and economic change, this book provides the first comparative study of the nature of social identity in early modern provincial England.

'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

The book explores the ways in which social cohesion -- measured as trust in unknown fellow citizens -- can be established and undermined.

The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history.

The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history.

Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up.

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades.

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades.

There are two narratives of the American class structure: one of a country with boundless opportunities for upward mobility and one of a rigid class system in which the rich stay rich while the poor stay poor.

There are two narratives of the American class structure: one of a country with boundless opportunities for upward mobility and one of a rigid class system in which the rich stay rich while the poor stay poor.

Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program -- Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao -- since its inception in 1993.

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.

Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today.

Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today.

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.

How does the insecurity of work affect us?

It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies.

It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies.

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation.