Social Mobility

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, a...

Many people in the United States are poor, lead marginal lives, and need jobs as well as basic services such as education, medical care, and housin...

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fas...

New Mobilities Regimes analyses how global mobilities are changing the world of today and the role of political and economic power. Bringing togeth...

How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doct...

Honorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award presented by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Assoc...

The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive - a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has terme...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position. But how does this work for t...

'Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress' David Kynaston, SpectatorPoliticians say social mobility is real... this book proves ot...

Low income households are faced with various types of risks, increasing their vulnerability to poverty. In Cambodia, conditions of the rural poor -...

The economy's struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the Great Recession presented unique but essential questions.The book considers a full...

'A fascinating call to arms full of insight' IndependentAfter four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinio...

This volume provides a novel and relational sociological approach to the study of EU civil society. It focuses on the interactions and interrelatio...

Fábos and Isotalo address the issue of forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. Their work explores the tensions between Muslim religious...

This book examines contemporary relations between ethnic majority and ethnic minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, an...

The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us goin...

The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth centur...

Cross-border Mobility: Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia offers a fresh perspective on the association between mobility and the ethnocult...

Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world, through a decol...

Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world, through a decol...

Featured in the Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020 The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the...solutions equally clearly illuminated....