Social Classes

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...