Social classes Books

Status, Power, and Legitimacy presents methodological, theoretical, and empirical essays by Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr.-two of the leading contributors to the Stanford tradition in the study of micropro-cesses. This three-part volume brings...

The Muck Rake is an exposé of corruption and abuse of power in American politics and business at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on his experience as a journalist and social reformer, Edward Clayson exposes the sordid underbelly of American...

Shane examines the social problems facing America in the early 20th century, such as poverty, crime, and corruption. He analyzes the root causes of these problems, which he believes lie in the greed and selfishness of individuals and society as a whole...

Small-scale industries emerge as the resilient backbone of local economies, contributing significantly to the economic fabric of communities. These enterprises, often characterized by their modest size and localized operations, play a crucial role in...

Published in 1902, this groundbreaking study offers a comprehensive picture of the economic conditions faced by working-class Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive survey data and firsthand accounts, the authors provide...

Cet ouvrage propose une étude détaillée de la pairie en France, avec un accent sur l'histoire et la généalogie des pairs de France et des principales familles nobles du royaume. Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien de Courcelles offre une analyse minutieuse de...

The American Dream of reaching success through sheer sweat and determination rings false for countless members of today's working class. This volume shows that many of the difficulties facing modern laborers have deep roots in the history of worker...

In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research and international case studies to explore this topic in depth. The book is rooted in original qualitative...

Based on ethnographic research conducted in an urban, coeducational school, this book challenges the modernist, Eurocentric and ahistorical understandings of childhood that prevail in educational policy-making in India, offering a contextualised account...

Latinos comprise the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, and this interdisciplinary anthology gathers the scholarship of early career and senior Latina/o scholars whose work explores the varied and unique latinidades, or Latino cultural...

This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the wayto a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work...

The past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices of the activists themselves and capturing the...

How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? How have class-based labels been revived or...

This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across...

Ce livre vaut un trésor et il serait à désirer que les caractères dont on l'imprimera fussent d'argent. Lettre du feu R. P. Mersenne à M. Sorbière d'Orléans... le 25 d'avril 1646. Si la physique est une chose toute nouvelle, la philosophie politique...

In his revolutionary book, Neither Sword nor Scepter, Wilhelm Haller (1935-2004) discusses justice in our economic system and in our society. In doing so, he brings into play quite original approaches to solutions based on an almost completely forgotten...

Social capital arising from social networks based on trust has been traditionally seen as the property of adults from which the younger generation gain benefit. Far less attention has been given to the production of social capital among young people...

Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society. Focusing on families of the new middle class in...

Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on...

What will it take to achieve gender equality in our lifetime?This is the question that kicks off a curious and winding learning journey in How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women. Maureen Devine-Ahl explores inspiring...

A political pamphlet by the celebrated British illustrator, writer, and socialist William Morris, in which he argues for the value of labor, the need to improve the conditions of the working class, and the importance of art and beauty in everyday life...

In this insightful and entertaining account, the German nobleman Francis Joseph Grund offers a unique perspective on American society and politics in the early 19th century. With wit, humor, and a keen eye for the contradictions and paradoxes of American...

Emerging from Inside Film, a project that helps prisoners and people on probation make their own films, this book discusses the need for working class people to represent themselves and challenge mainstream stereotypes and assumptions about...

This volume looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomena, the volume: Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship, and...

The representation of the economic, political, cultural and, more importantly, global interrelations between agents involved in the process of intellectual activity is at the core of the inquiry in this volume that scrutinizes a distinct transformation...

Middle-class progressives in the early 20th Century wanted to transform a corrupt and chaotic industrial America into an "authentic" democracy. But they were led astray by their privilege. Focused on enhancing the voices of individuals, generations of...

This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.

The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage one hundred years ago. In Status Passage, first published in 1971, the movement of individuals and groups in contemporary society from...

This impassioned call to arms for the rights of labor was written by one of the leading voices of the American socialist movement in the early 20th century. In it, Green examines the history of the struggle between workers and capitalists, from the...

Explore Pittsburgh's industrial history and the struggles of its working class through these influential surveys conducted at the turn of the 20th century. From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire to the Homestead Strike, these firsthand accounts...

Arthur J. Penty's The Restoration of the Gild System is a pioneering work of social theory that argues for a return to the medieval guild system as a means of addressing the social and economic problems of the modern world. With a mix of historical...

As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four...

'Teacher for Justice is a major contribution to the history of the women's movement, working‑class activism and Australian political internationalism. But it is more than this. By focusing on the life of Lucy Woodcock – an unrecognised and...

Vietnam's shift to a market-based society has brought about profound realignments in its people's relations with each other. As the nation continues its retreat from the legacies of war and socialism, significant social rifts have emerged that divide...

Using data from the 1995 National Health Survey (NHS) this study asks the question—what is the relationship between income, health expenditure and health status for the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Australia? Income is generally seen as...

This volume seeks to contribute to the body of anthropological and historical studies of Indigenous participation in the Australian colonial and post colonial economy. It arises out of a panel on this topic at the annual conference of the Australian...

The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups. It uses a trans-global approach, as opposed to the comparative approach, to examine the relationship...