Social Groups

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...

Pamela Jackson, née Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, and yet her story is just as captivating, and more...

This book explains a long-standing puzzle in American politics: why so many Americans support downwardly redistributive social welfare programs, wh...

From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection o...

The BBC television series Downton Abbey (2010-2016) developed and produced by Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes, became a cultural barometer wit...

The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, m...

In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform thems...

In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform thems...

Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban pl...

Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in BrittanyGalles, Jollivet, and Le Ridantwho rose t...

Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston's South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victo...

A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world...

The notion that public intellectuals in the US are in decline has again become fashionable with their portrayal as trapped between Academe and the ...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young wome...

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age...

In large parts of the developing world, peasant to industrial worker and rural to urban transition is a huge question mark on the face of the polit...

Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and ...

By the late 19th century and the early 20th century, there were at least nineteen large and small areas, streets or neighbourhoods that were declar...

Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it ...

In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry ...

During Chinas socio-economic transition period, stretching from 1978 to the present day, the nations social structure underwent enormous changes. T...

Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural ...

On the night of September 6, 2011, terror called at the Amish home of the Millers. Answering a late-night knock from what appeared to be an Amish n...

Fresh, original, heartbreaking Reni Eddo-Lodge Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic Pandora Sykes'...

Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. But are the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the goo...

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Little is known about Egypts Gypsies, called Dom by scholars, but variously referred to by Egyptians as Ghagar, Nawar, Halebi, or Hanagra, dependin...

How a series of violent Amish-on-Amish attacks shattered the peace of a peace-loving people and led to a new interpretation of the federal hate cri...