Social Classes

Many studies of the Chinese middle class focus on defining it and viewing its significance for economic development and its potential for sociopoli...

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade...

This title was first published in 2002: The trade union movement in twentieth-century Britain has been a cornerstone for societys marginalized memb...

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities th...

In a world where the effects of inequality occupy an increasingly prominent place on the public agenda, this book provides up-to-date and thorough ...

Beginning from the premise that a range of Marxist theoretical tendencies, or Marxisms, inform recent critical scholarship in education, this volum...

The past decades have witnessed a surge of sociological interest in the body. From the focal point of aesthetic investment, political regulation an...

Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in economic and political debates. Although this interest is welcome, the debate is still ...

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social cla...

This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class. I...

The modern world is characterised by pervasive economic inequalities. Strong economic growth in some developing countries has contributed to a degr...

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also ...

In his recent work, Guy Standing has identified a new class which has emerged from neo-liberal restructuring with, he argues, the revolutionary pot...

American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely...

American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely...

Traditionally academia has been seen as an elite profession, for those with an academic background and from the middle/upper classes. This is what ...

This book examines how gender and class discourses shape 'musical mothering' by incorporating knowledges from sociology, psychology, cultural studi...

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon needs to be rethought. It focuses on t...

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trad...

Inequality has dramatically increased in America, with few solutions on the horizon. Serious social inequalities persist. For example, the 14 riche...

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain. It argues that in...

This book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is ve...

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reprod...

This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and discrimination agains...

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explo...

Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book engages with the question of whether the digital divide ...

The linguistic origin of the term Dalit is Marathi, and pre-dates the militant-intellectual Dalit Panthers movement of the 1970s. It was not in pop...

The year 2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union. This may be an appropriate time to evaluate the adoption by previousl...

First published in 1935, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake, giving a background to the earthquake zone...

New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline....

First published in 1939, this book sets out to refute some of the unjust charges laid at Indias door and correct the false impressions that prevail...

There has been an increasing interest in the meaning and importance of friendship in recent years, particularly in the West. However, the history o...

First published in 1937, this book grew out of the authors belief that there needed to be a drastic revision of British policy on the North-West Fr...

The problem of citizenship has long affected Latin America, simultaneously producing inclusion and exclusion, division and unity. Its narrative and...

Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different forms of social inequality, oppression ...

Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different forms of social inequality, oppression ...

New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline....

This cross-disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on childrens food occasions inside and outside of the home across different geo...

China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and...

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, ...

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis...

Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geograph...

Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology. When the condition is discussed in relation...