Social classes

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.

In her timely new book, Teresa M.

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.

The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun).

Originally published in 1974, this book looks at the general problems regarding the sociology of law.

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the Bangladeshi diaspora in USA.

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate.

Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger generation of amateur and professional boxers.

In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles C.

Industrial Action (1980) examines in a comparative analysis the principal elements involved in industrial action - strikes, work-to-rule, go-slows etc - in four key industries in Australia - construction, shipbuilding, the waterfront and telecommunications.

Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global markets.

From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation.

In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new edition of Sport, Theory and Social Problems, authors Eric Anderson and Adam White examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes inequality, injury, and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play in Anglo-American countries.

This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body.

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

Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism.

This volume contains an Open Access chapter.

This leading, comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the last edition (2015), just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more.

The formation and characteristics of a nation's middle class are shaped by historical context and the developmental path that has been followed.

First published in 1938, this book aims to provide a history of the rise and growth of the Indian National Congress for the general reader, covering the period from its foundation in 1885 until the beginning of the non-co-operation movement in 1920.

This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation.

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

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.

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people's past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.

News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never before.

In these works Professor Jordan studies the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England.

Reviews of the First Edition:thoughtful, critical, comprehensive, genuine Byrnes workshould prove compulsory reading for any critical and nuancedview of social exclusion.

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations.

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America.

This textbooks provides a comprehensive examination of poverty, wealth, and economic inequality from a psychological perspective.

This book makes the case for the welfare state.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, commonly referred to as COVID-19, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, around the world in more than a century.

The Title Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (Emancipation and Empowerment) written/authored/edited by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva, published in the year 2002.

An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional classDespite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group.

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.

Diversity and Design explores how design - whether of products, buildings, landscapes, cities, media, or systems - affects diverse members of society.