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...