Social classes

Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, and they address a range of private risks and public dangers.

First published in 1999.

The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s.

Intersectionality is one of the most popular theoretical paradigms in gender studies and feminist theory today.

The Economic Analysis of Unions (1986) thoroughly examines a range of theoretical and empirical literature on the economics of labour unions.

Caste in India, despite its historical resilience, has been undergoing transformation since independence.

';Praxedis was one of the purest, worthiest, most intelligent, self-denying and bravest men that ever espoused the cause of the disinherited.

Anti-consumerism has become a conspicuous part of contemporary activism and popular culture, from 'culture jams' and actions against Esso and Starbucks, through the downshifting and voluntary simplicity movements, the rise of ethical consumption and organic and the high profile of films and books like Supersize Me!

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.

Featured in The Best Summer Beach Reads From Rhody Authors byRhode Island Monthly (July 2023)Summertime on Rhode Islands luxurious Aquidneck Island.

Originally published in 1983 The Urban and Regional Transformation of Britain, analyses economic and social changes recorded across the cities and regions of Britain since the Barlow Report.

Consumer Sexualities explores women's experiences of shopping in 'sex shops' and using sexual commodities in their everyday lives.

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The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economic, and political practices related to globalization.

Teaching Justice explores the role that teaching and learning in higher education can play in solving problems of social injustice.

Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.

Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society.

This title was first published in 2003.

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

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

Shifts in societal development resulting from economic and technological advancements have had an impact upon the development of human sexuality and behaviour, and with the expansion of developments such as the Internet and associated technologies, it is likely that further societal shifts will ensue.

This book examines the "e;who, what, when, where, and how"e; of elite-white-male dominance in U.

Sixty-eight years after India's independence, the Dalit community continues to be oppressed.

This new edition contextualizes Lareau's original ethnography in a discussion of the most pressing issues facing educators at the beginning of the new millennium.

To what extent do urban dwellers relate to their lived and imagined environment through aesthetic perceptions, and aspirations?

In the three decades before the First World War, the relationship between socialism and feminism was both curious and convoluted.

This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research.

Elite Discourse examines how language and communication - or just discourse - define, mediate and legitimize class privilege.

This study is an attempt at explaining the social structure of India with reference to untouchability.

This volume examines the experiences of Sao Paulo's working class during Brazil's Old Republic (1891-1930), showing how individuals and families adapted to forces and events such as urbanization, discrimination, migration, and World War I.

In this lucid, original, and provocative study, Professor Cusson advances a theory of delinquent behaviour that is both disarming and convincing.

This book challenges sociologists and sociology students to think beyond the construction of social problems to tackle a central question: What do sociologists do with the analytic tools and academic skills afforded by their discipline to respond to social problems?

The Dalit Buddhist movement (dubbed as Navayana by certain Ambedkerites) is a 19th and 20th-century Buddhist revival movement in India.

Citizens who benefit from the submerged state fail to see it; citizens who don''t benefit see the state and transform it.

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways.

An essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years.

'Popular Struggles or One Struggle?

This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and discrimination against, minority ethnic groups in the British NHS.

Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity.

Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is reproduced.

Seven years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the global imagination.

Originally published in 1978, Schools in an Urban Community is an ethnography of the Carbrook and Hill Top area of the Attercliffe district of Sheffield before it was cleared for redevelopment.

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.

In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in "e;post-Marxist"e; theory.

This book examines the implications of China's economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers.

From an author of the best-selling womens health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across racial and class divides.

Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world.

As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences, this volume explores the nature of this border category that exists in the space between sociological and philosophical considerations, related as it is to concepts such as status, prestige, the looking-glass self, respect, and dignity - at times being used interchangeably with these terms.