Social classes

Originally published 1987 Schooling Ordinary Kids looks at the 'invisible majority' of ordinary working-class pupils.

This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance on debt.

Race, more than class or any other factor, determines who wins and who loses in American democracy.

Fifty years ago, familiar images of the lottery would have been strange, as no state lottery existed then.

In recent years, mob attacks on women by men have drawn public attention to an emerging social phenomenon.

American Living Standards contends that the central problem of the U.

Originally published in 1966, this is a sociological study of boys growing up in East London.

This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform.

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Is there a typical European class structure?

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century.

Originally published in 1917 in the midst of World War I, Carpenter argues that industry in pre-war Britain was simply exploitation of labour for private gain and attempts to look toward a future with more socialist values.

This title was first published in 2002: Advancing the understanding of a transition society, this book presents an in-depth analysis of social structures in modern Russia.

First published in 1977.

Britain's welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern society.

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.

Change and Disruption: Sociology of the Future draws on classical and modern sociological theory to identify recent and emerging trends in the global system.

First published in 1997.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

The period from 1876 to 1946 in Korea marked a turbulent time when the country opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, industrialization, and eventually postcolonial revolutionary movements.

Chicago lauded as hog-butcher by poet Sandburg, then damned as a cannibal in Sinclair's The Jungle, was also a city of wanderers, truants, and delinquents.

First published in 1934, the majority of this book was developed just prior to the Nazi seizure of power, with additional material which reflects on its aftermath.

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

Race is once again a contentious topic in America, as shown by the divisive rise of Donald Trump and the activism of groups like Black Lives Matter.

Over the past decade, Laos' exposure to global capitalism has resulted in extensive economic and social transformations.

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, gender, and class studies from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century.

Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people's social positions.

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

Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today.

Using the way of storytelling, this book examines the petitions of the migrants of a dam in China.

First published in 1972, this book rejects as inadequate the 'trait' and 'functionalist' theories of the professions and instead presents an alternative framework to analyse the contemporaneous occupational change in industrial societies.

San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley.

This volume addresses the contested relationship between social stratification and social movements in three different ways: First, the authors address the relationship between social stratification and the emergence of protest mobilization.

Originally published in 1979, The Idea of Welfare critically reviews the concepts of egoism and altruism as they are expressed in residual and intuitional models of social welfare.

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

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

This textbook explores the emergence of sociology as a distinct social science.

Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress.

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In recent years the concept of 'diversity' has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide.

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field.

According to Adolph Caso, the dream behind We, the people.

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

First published in 1985.

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 1970 Social Planning Techniques for Town Planners introduces social research methods for town planners.

In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich's classic Nickel and Dimed, a talented young journalist goes undercover as a casino labor-union organizer in this rare inside look at the ongoing struggle of hourly-wage service workers to survive in America.

In this comprehensive volume, authors from across the social sciences explore how housing wealth transfers have impacted the integration of families, society and the economy, with a focus on the (re)negotiation of the 'generational contract'.

Consumption Intensified examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in Sao Paulo redefined their class during Brazil's economic crisis of 1981-1994.