Social Classes

Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these pe...

Here is a broad and richly documented examination of a little studied social group--the German nobility outside Prussia. Gregory Pedlow considers t...

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

An important contribution to our cumulative knowledge of castes, based on a case study of the pueblo of San Luis Jilotepeque, about ninety miles fr...

An important contribution to our cumulative knowledge of castes, based on a case study of the pueblo of San Luis Jilotepeque, about ninety miles fr...

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defi...

Examining the attitudes toward the education of the lower classes in eighteenth- century France, Harvey Chisick uncovers severe limitations to enli...

Award-winning artist, writer and broadcaster Scottee grew up around mould, mice and second-hand clothes. After a chance meeting with some posh kids...

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Start...

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneu...

Dinomania Wildly inventive theatre company Kandinsky return with a head-spinningly smart show about Victorian fossil huntersNo-one else makes thea...

Over the course of the last century, the focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products...

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern ...

A quite thorough and impressive work, not only a compelling defense of materialism but also a fair-minded if highly critical engagement with cultur...

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...

Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high-achieving professional women. Yet many do so, usually planning, even as they quit...

The Metaphysics of Cooperation presents the intellectual achievements of the Polish associative socialist and pioneer of social sciences, Edward Ab...

Immigrant women are not only at greater risk of experiencing domestic violence but they also under-utilize mainstream services because their needs ...

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems workand how they fail. The i...

This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical...

Creative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropoli...

This book examines differing classroom pedagogies in two early childhood programs serving vulnerable populations in Chicago, one program Reggio Emi...

Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study ...

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...