Social Classes

An up-close account of how Nigerians’ self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state...

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in ...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first rec...

This ambitious book examines Saint Oscar Romero's words to understand how his thoughts fit into the broader context of Catholic theology. On March ...

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe co...

Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnog...

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Late-stage capitalism is trying t...

The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed ...

In Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town , Ronald Morris and collaborators examine the history and context of a rural Midwester...

What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, ...

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Vall...

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty...

The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the frin...

Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injusticeWe often think that a college degree will open ...

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectabl...

This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful...