Social Groups

There are two narratives of the American class structure: one of a country with boundless opportunities for upward mobility and one of a rigid clas...

In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA fr...

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 ...