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Studies in Class Structure

Studies in Class Structure

First published in 1955 Studies in Class Structure contains six studies in problems of social structure relating mainly to contemporary British society. Professor Cole studies an analysis of the information about class structure contained in the British Census of 1951; and he also deals with the changes in British class structure during the past hundred years. He considers the structure of elites in contemporary Britain with some account of their development. He is also concerned with the influence of technical changes on class structures in Europe. These studies do not pretend to embody a comprehensive treatment of the problems of social structure: each of them stands by itself as a sharply original treatment of the many facets of class structure. This book will be of interest to students of economics sociology and history.

GBP 90.00
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Class Race and Gold A Study of Class Relations and Racial Discrimination in South Africa

Class Race and Gold A Study of Class Relations and Racial Discrimination in South Africa

Originally published in 1976 this book is a sociological and historical study of class and race relations in a crucial sector of South Africa – the gold mining industry during and following the First World War. The author develops a Marxist structuralist explanation of the system of racial discrimination and then goes in to examine the significant historical events of this formative period notably those surrounding the strike and uprising of the white workers in 1922. The book explains a system of racial domination essentially in terms of the class positions and problems of the dominating groups and examines historical developments concerning race in terms of class. | Class Race and Gold A Study of Class Relations and Racial Discrimination in South Africa

GBP 105.00
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The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class

In The Theory of the Leisure Class his first and best-known work Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and with devastating wit and satire exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste education dress and culture. Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society. The sign of membership in the leisure class is exemption from industrial toil and the mark of success is lavish expenditure conspicuous consumption is the famous term he invented to describe somethings that satisfies no real need but is a mark of prestige. The process Veblen describes continues today albeit in a more circuitous form. The Theory of the Leisure Class is part of an ongoing effort to make available the collected works of Veblen to a present-day audience of students and scholars.

GBP 130.00
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Middle-Class Values in India and Western Europe

Middle-Class Values in India and Western Europe

Middle-class Values in India and Western Europe discusses the distinctive attributes of the middle classes in France Germany and India. The construction of new norms of respectability is a universal feature of the middles classes though their rhetoric has varied in different societies. Drawing on historical experiences in both western Europe and colonial India the contributors to this volume try to understand the common inheritance of these newly emerging middle classes and the social and political impact they have had on their societies of origin. Each study is based on detailed research and combines both theoretical and empirical material. The book is divide into three sections. The first section ‘The Rise of the Middle Class in India and Western Europe’ has three chapters and they dwell on the middle class and secularization; the middle classes in twentieth-century India; and the values of the middle classes in Germany. The second section ‘Class Formation in the Twentieth Century’ contains four essays which discuss the character of the Indian middle class; middle-class values and the creation of a civil society; the ‘Grand Ecoles’ in France; and the changing social structure of the German society and the transformation of the German bourgeois culture. The last section ‘Values and Orientations’ consists of five papers on the Indian middle class and explore the cultural construction of gender in urban India; the Dalit middle class; the political orientation of the middle classes; the politics of the middle classes and their shifting class values.

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Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets

Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets

The Lives of Uneducated Poets written by Robert Southey and published in 1831 unites several poets under the ‘uneducated’ banner being the first to identify them as a group and claiming their their writing was worth consideration as that of a class. The book's foundational role contributes to the current interest in labouring-class/self-educated poetry and nineteenth-century history and culture. Accompanied by a new introduction written by Southey scholar Tim Fulford this title will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary History. | Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets

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Divide And School Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education

Divide And School Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education

First published in 1995. This book is concerned with how comprehensive schooling can act as a social system of class and gender differentiation. Based on a critical synthesis of feminist and sociological literature on secondary education Abraham develops a theoretical and methodological framework for ethnographic research into the central gender and class dynamic of a comprehensive school. | Divide And School Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education

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Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class (‘the peasantry’) to be pitted against the state or corporation. This book challenges this rather idealistic view by demonstrating that under current capitalist social relations (competition efficiency and productivity and profit maximisation) these agricultural producers have been differentiated into different agrarian classes by exploitation. By comparing two different contexts of local agrarian change in Indonesia—rice cultivation in Java and oil palm in Sumatra—this book exposes the different class locations of the agrarian classes among petty agricultural producers and the class relations between them. These are often inextricably linked to gender clanship and generational issues. The power of class dynamics crucially shapes how agricultural production in both rice and oil palm is organised. The share received by different agrarian classes from the production site then prominently shapes the different nature of class reproduction for each agrarian class. This analysis demonstrates that the different agrarian classes possess different capacities and responses in their relation to the state or corporations. Any real emancipation attempt in the Indonesian countryside (and beyond) must start from a proper understanding of these class dynamics. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on agrarian change the political economy of development rural development and Marxist political economy. | Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

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The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism Work Unions and Politics in Sweden

The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism Work Unions and Politics in Sweden

First published in 1978 The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism looks at the position of the working class in the Swedish pattern of welfare capitalism and compares it with other capitalist industrial countries. Beginning with an analysis of class class conflict power and social change in classical and modern social theory Professor Korpi discusses the development of the Swedish labour movement and its strategies of class conflict. He focuses on the situation of the worker at the workplace and in the community on the functioning of the labour union on industrial conflict and on the political views and standpoints of the workers. He also examines political developments in Sweden and discusses the prospects for a development towards economic democracy. A challenging and comprehensive study of Swedish social democracy in action carried out by a Swede within a comparative frame of reference the book presents an analysis which is of central relevance to all capitalist societies especially when mass communist parties in Europe appear to be moving towards reformistic socialism. This book will be of interest to students of sociology social class economy and history. | The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism Work Unions and Politics in Sweden

GBP 115.00
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Sex Class and Culture

Sex Class and Culture

First published in 1986 Sex Class and Culture is a collection of Marxist feminist essays that develops an original critical theory and applies it to literature the visual arts and mass media. Lillian Robinson was the first American critic to suggest the essential connections among sex class and race as forces that shape works of art and the critical response to them. In applying her theory to particular texts she considers topics from the Renaissance epic to the Regency romance from Jane Austen to contemporary feminist poets and from factory workers’ memoirs to TV images of career women and housewives. The essays are insightful because Robinson clearly knows this wide assortment of texts cares about their significance and writes about them with wit. They are irreverent because she asserts the feminist critic’s permanent responsibility to ask So What? and they are controversial because she constantly addresses that question to our most powerful and respectable institutions – social and literary. This book will be of interest to students of literature history gender studies and sexuality studies.

GBP 105.00
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Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

First published in 1983 Which Way is Up presents a selection of Bob Connell’s writings on three key issues of modern social analysis- sex and gender class and power and culture. The essays range from psychoanalysis and contemporary feminism to the role theory from the analysis of class and culture to the debate about intellectuals and the ‘new class’. In critically reviewing contemporary thought on these issues the author has developed a perspective centred on the analysis of social practice. Easy to read often witty the essays represent an attempt to shift social theory into the real world of the late twentieth century to go beyond the limits of orthodox sociology and radical dogmas to think through theoretical questions without losing touch with practical politics. This is a must read for students and scholars of sociology. | Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

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Conflicts About Class Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism

Conflicts About Class Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism

In recent years there has been growing debate among sociologists about the concept of class and its relevance to the highly industrialised world of the late twentieth century. This book makes available in a single volume all of the key contributions to this debate and takes it a step further with a number of specially commissioned pieces. An editorial introduction which sets the main arguments in context additional commentary and two alternative conclusions help to make this a unique text for a subject that remains crucial yet highly contentious. | Conflicts About Class Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism

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Working-Class Masculinities in Australian Higher Education Policies Pathways and Progress

Working-Class Masculinities in Australian Higher Education Policies Pathways and Progress

This book takes a critical view of masculinities through an investigation of first-in-family males transitioning to higher education. Drawing on six in-depth longitudinal case studies the focus is on how young men from working-class backgrounds engage with complex social inequalities as well as the various capitals they draw upon to ensure their success. Through the longitudinal approach the work problematises the rhetoric of ‘poverty of aspirations’ and foregrounds how class and gender influence the lives and futures of these young men. The book demonstrates how the aspirations of these young men are influenced by a complex interplay between race/ethnicity religion masculinity and social class. Finally the book draws connections between the lived experiences of the participants and the implications for policy and practice in higher education. Drawn from a larger research project each case study compels the reader to think critically regarding masculinities in relation to social practices institutional arrangements and cultural ideologies. This is essential reading for those interested in widening participation in higher education gender theory/masculinities longitudinal research and social justice. | Working-Class Masculinities in Australian Higher Education Policies Pathways and Progress

GBP 130.00
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Social Mobility in Traditional Chinese Society Community and Class

Social Mobility in Traditional Chinese Society Community and Class

This authoritative volume - a large-scale empirical work comparable to Pitirim Sorokin's Social Mobility - is a penetrating and comprehensive study of social stratification and mobility in traditional Chinese society and a highly significant addition to the theoretical and factual foundations of contemporary social science. It offers an authentic portrayal not only of social mobility but of social life in China in general at the time of its original publication in the 1960s. It includes the life histories of the upper class - scholars active and retired officials merchants and wealthy landlords - and an analysis of social statistics drawn from one Chinese county which provides new interpretations of the processes of social mobility the relationship of this class to society as a whole and the motives of upwardly mobile individuals. Each life history comprises at least five generations and its resulting accounts touch upon the lives of 1 200 persons and help place the development of the gentry in illuminating context within the population as a whole. Chow's book offers a welcome method of comparison of two societies that have both birth and mobile elites. As China entered the world system its open class system changed from fluidity to disorganization regarding its character. As such it was transformed into an innovating society in which the earlier system could not or did not work. Social Mobility in Traditional Chinese Society is unique in its field for the successful correlation of conceptual framework with its detailed wealth of empirical findings. It will be welcomed by all students of social science international relations and Asian studies. | Social Mobility in Traditional Chinese Society Community and Class

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Class Management in the Primary School

Class Management in the Primary School

This book is one of a set of eight innovative yet practical resource books for teachers focussing on the classroom and covering vital skills for primary and secondary teachers. The books are strongly influenced by the findings of numerous research projects during which hundreds of teachers were observed at work. The first editions of the series were best sellers and these revised editions will be equally welcomed by teachers eager to improve their teaching skills. Successful primary teachers operate in many different ways but they have one thing in common - an ability to manage their classrooms effectively. Without the skills required to do this the most inspiring and knowledgeable teacher will fail. In Class Management in the Primary School Ted Wragg helps teachers to clarify their own aims and to find the strategies which will work for them. Topics covered include:*first encounters*establishing the rules*management of*time and space*coping with specific discipline problemsThere are certain skills that teachers possess that are of paramount importance - class management is one of those areas. Effective classroom management can be the single most influential factor in getting it right and is a core teaching skill that both trainee and experienced teachers should constantly be improving on.

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Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class Generation Hashtag

Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class Generation Hashtag

This book examines the causes of a growing wave of digital activism across developing countries arguing that it is driven by social change rather than technological advancement alone. Beginning with an investigation into the modernization of ‘middle-income countries’ and its ramifications for political culture the book examines large-scale social media protest during political controversies in Indonesia. The book connects empirical evidence to classic theories of value change and political behaviour. It departs from a narrow ‘digital divide’ framing whereby Internet access produces Internet activism. It introduces the concepts of ‘digital self-expression’ and of ‘middle-class struggles’ to capture the value-stratified nature of political engagement in the online sphere. Drawing on a blend of ‘big-data’ text analyses representative opinion research and socioeconomic household analyses a rich picture of the determinants of digital activism emerges. This truly cross-disciplinary book will appeal particularly to students and scholars in Political Science Sociology International Development and Communication but also to anyone eager to learn about political activism social transformation and new media from a global perspective. | Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class Generation Hashtag

GBP 130.00
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Race Class and Political Symbols Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics

Race Class and Political Symbols Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics

Dr. Waters is one of a new breed of analysts for whom the interpenetration of politics culture and national development is key to a larger integration of social research. Race Class and Political Symbols is a remarkably cogent examination of the uses of Rastafarian symbols and reggae music in Jamaican electoral campaigns. The author describes and analyzes the way Jamaican politicians effectively employ improbable strategies for electoral success. She includes interviews with reggae musicians Rastafarian leaders government and party officials and campaign managers. Jamaican democracy and politics are fused to its culture; hence campaign advertisements reggae songs party pamphlets and other documents are part of the larger picture of Caribbean life and letters. This volume centers and comes to rest on the adoption of Rastafarian symbols in the context of Jamaica's democratic institutions which are characterized by vigorous campaigning electoral fraud and gang violence. In recent national elections such violence claimed the lives of hundreds of people. Significant issues are dealt with in this cultural setting: race differentials among Whites Browns and Blacks; the rise of anti-Cubanism; the Rastafarians' response to the use of their symbols; and the current status of Rastafarian ideological legitimacy. | Race Class and Political Symbols Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics

GBP 145.00
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Social Class Status and Teacher Trade Unionism The Case of Public Sector Further and Higher Education

Social Class Status and Teacher Trade Unionism The Case of Public Sector Further and Higher Education

First published in 1988 Social Class Status and Teacher Trade Unionism examines some of the causes underlying the growing resentment of public sector professionals focusing on the teachers in the polytechnics and colleges of further and higher education and on their union once the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions. It looks in depth at the relationship between professional commitment and trade union activism and at the limits employee status within a bureaucratic control structure can impose on professional self-management and control. The book provides both an important social history of the teachers and teaching in this sector and an incisive analysis of the nature and development of ‘professional trade unions’. This book will be of interest to students of education sociology and history. | Social Class Status and Teacher Trade Unionism The Case of Public Sector Further and Higher Education

GBP 90.00
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Region Race and Class in the Making of Colombia

Region Race and Class in the Making of Colombia

This pioneering translation of Alfonso Múnera’s seminal work El fracaso de la nación presents a new interpretation and innovative perspective on canonical Colombian history and the failure of the Colombian nation to English-speaking readers. Mainstream historiography depicts Colombian independence as the achievement of European-descendent elites only downplaying the role and importance of regional subaltern classes. Múnera’s well-researched account challenges theoretical political and cultural interventions and shows that these subaltern groups were pivotal to achieving independence from Spain. It was their organizing and pressing for freedom from colonial domination that ultimately brought about independence in Cartagena and later to the whole country. Yet Múnera demonstrates that these differing regional elites meant that a single coherent unity across New Granada was not possible a point that would ultimately doom subsequent nation-building efforts. Offering a truly decolonizing perspective one that has remained hidden from official accounts of Colombian independence scholars and researchers in political science history sociology and anthropology will welcome the opportunity to read this work for the first time in translation. | Region Race and Class in the Making of Colombia

GBP 130.00
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The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

Oriented toward the introductory student The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive more accessible and more relevant. Now more than ever The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon. | The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

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Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

Class War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism. Kende not only refutes the originally anti-Communist myth of the systemic nature of (state) socialism but tries to re- and deconstruct the origins of this myth. With intensive use of historical documents memoirs and the related historiography the book attempts to make historical sense from the myth it intends to refute. Kende goes beyond the contemporary perceptions of the “Jewish question” and antisemitism and with close reading of original documents reconstructs the real frontlines of the Soviet society of the 1940s which were not constructed along identity-political lines. The book reinvests the long-forgotten understanding of social classes in an allegedly classless and monolithic society. The spontaneous formations of the actual frontlines in the hinterland or on the actual fronts (battlefields in the Red Army) lacked the participants’ class consciousness thus its occurrences in the form of conflict producing historical records were recorded as acts of antisemitism. As the book advocates Jews could have been found on both sides of the inner frontlines of Soviet society during and right after WWII. An insightful read for scholars of Soviet history that presents a bold and challenging interpretation of the regime and its flaws—both perceived and real. | Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

GBP 130.00
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Russian Pogroms and Jewish Revolution 1905 Class Ethnicity Autocracy in the First Russian Revolution

Russian Pogroms and Jewish Revolution 1905 Class Ethnicity Autocracy in the First Russian Revolution

This book based on extensive original research examines the widespread and violent pogroms against Jews which took place in the Russian Empire in 1905. It briefly surveys the earlier history of Jews in the Russian Empire and the discriminatory policies against them. The work outlines the extent of the killings and lootings in 1905 explores the role of the authorities who were often neutral or complicit in the violence and highlights Jewish self-defense measures. It relates the pogroms to the place of the Jews in Russian urban and rural life to social change and modernisation and to the revolutionary events of 1905 in which Jews played a prominent role and during which calls for ethnic self-determination arose among many nationalities of the Russian Empire most broadly and consequentially among Jews. Overall the book views the pogroms as a consequence not only of Russian antisemitism but of the broader revolutionary breakdown of Russian state and society in 1905. | Russian Pogroms and Jewish Revolution 1905 Class Ethnicity Autocracy in the First Russian Revolution

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Uneven Development in Southern Europe Studies of Accumulation Class Migration and the State

Uneven Development in Southern Europe Studies of Accumulation Class Migration and the State

First published in 1985 Uneven Development in Southern Europe is an essential reference in the analysis of the significant changes that have taken place within southern Europe. The shifts within the region’s economic political and social structures raise important questions about the nature of uneven development the meaning of dependency and the political consequences of social change. These underlying processes are reflected in debates on issues such as the protracted process of the Mediterranean enlargement of the European Community the plight of ‘guest workers’ in northern Europe and the competition presented by goods and produce from southern Europe. Within the broad framework of tendencies in the movements of labour and capital that are outlined in the introduction successive chapters examine the regional and national impact of labour migration and return evaluate the social consequences of new forms of agricultural production or industrial investment and demonstrate the relationships between uneven development and the growing crisis of legitimacy of southern European states. The emphasis on detailed case studies ensures that the key theoretical questions are addressed with unusual precision while individual chapters also provide useful insights for those interested in France Greece Italy Portugal Spain or Turkey in their own right. The book will be of interest to students of development economy history and migration. | Uneven Development in Southern Europe Studies of Accumulation Class Migration and the State

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