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This accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as contemporary thinkers to restate the ongoing importance of class as a sociological concept. Class has long been a key focus of sociological and political studies. This book explores what it might mean today in a twenty-first century context. Is class really disappearing? Is class morally justifiable? What impact has globalisation and neoliberalism had on the restructuring of class-based social relationships? These questions and others are explored in this short but lively book. Stevenson reviews a number of normative traditions including anarchist Marxist social democratic and citizenship-based forms of understanding of class in order to shed light on the themes of class-based experiences health and inequality work class struggle social movements and the possibility of developing more egalitarian and just societies in the future. This short book will be invaluable to general readers and students in the humanities and social sciences seeking an accessible introduction to the central problems raised by discussions of class in the twenty-first century.

GBP 19.99
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Class and Everyday Life

Class and Everyday Life

Exploring the issues of class through in-depth studies of housing sport art music and politics in Britain Class and Everyday Life persuasively demonstrates the pervasive influence of class on everyday life and the need to centre a radical understanding of class within emancipatory political movements. The need for a more expansive understanding of class is politically urgent. There is a disconnect between descriptive and analytical approaches to class and the politics of class and realities around how class is lived. Discourse has been shaped by top-down frameworks of analysis and measurements which have stripped the study of class of its political radicalism. This book makes the case for a sociology of class which is informed by a politics of class based upon using the everyday as the point of enquiry. It presents a sociology of class from the bottom-up which focuses on everyday life and the point at which class is made and remade. In doing so it advocates for an attentiveness to class and everyday life through a conjunctural analysis. Using an everyday lens this book examines how the shifting conjunctures manifest in everyday spaces in classed ways and how such changes are negotiated resisted and shape the working-class subject and communities. This is based upon an understanding of everyday classed experiences which identifies and challenges inequalities while also recognising value and hope. This perspective aims to offer a recognition of both the opportunities and challenges of class as a way of developing a stronger more politicised understanding of class which takes solidarity and class community power seriously to resist inequality and develop emancipatory politics. This urgent and impassioned book will be essential reading for students academics and activists with an interest in the lived experience of class in Britain today.

GBP 34.99
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Race Class and Christianity in South Africa Middle-Class Moralities

Race Class and Christianity in South Africa Middle-Class Moralities

This book explores the relationship between race and class among middle-class Christians in South Africa. The book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of middle-class Christians in contemporary South Africa as they seek to live good lives and build a good society. Focused on the city of Cape Town drawing upon ethnographic research in conservative and progressive multiracial Protestant churches furnished with critical analysis of South African literature and popular culture this timely study explores expressions of ambition and anxiety that are both spiritual and material. Building upon debates over middle-class identity and morality from sociology anthropology and cultural studies this book analyses congregational attempts at social unity through worship music and creative youth ministry discussions on white privilege and shame and the impact of middle-class black activism in South African churches and society. This book will be of interest to researchers of South African culture and society religion anthropology and sociology. | Race Class and Christianity in South Africa Middle-Class Moralities

GBP 38.99
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Social Class in Modern Britain

Social Class in Modern Britain

The book incorporates three alternative conceptions of class. Erik Olin Wright's structural Marxist account is set alongside John Goldthorpe's occupational class schema and the Registrar-General's prestige and skill-related categories. The authors use their unique data on inequality and conflict in contemporary Britain to provide for the first time a rigourous comparison of Marxist sociological and official class frameworks. The book ranges widely across such topics as sectionalism in the workforce; privatism of families and individuals; fatalism; gender and class processes; sectoral production and consumption cleavages. The authors conclude that class is still crucial in structuring economic political and social life. | Social Class in Modern Britain

GBP 29.99
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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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Social Class and the Helping Professions A Clinician's Guide to Navigating the Landscape of Class in America

Social Class and the Helping Professions A Clinician's Guide to Navigating the Landscape of Class in America

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection of social class and the helping professions including examinations of the role of social class in American culture classism social class and mental health and the American Dream. It will be a valuable tool for practitioners in a variety of mental health professions providing a clearer understanding of social class as it relates to themselves and their clients. The first section contains an introduction to the global historical and sociological aspects of class and an in-depth look at urban and rural poverty the middle class and the upper class and economic privilege. The reader will find not only an examination of these social constructs but also an opportunity to examine their own experience with social class. The next section brings the reader into the world of their clients in more specific ways examining the role social class plays in mental health and mental health counseling in the family structure and in counseling families and in the experiences people have throughout the educational process and in schools. Finally the last section of the book discusses specific techniques and models to use in the reader’s clinical practice including how to assess clients’ experiences of class and classism and how these experiences have shaped their worldview and view of the self. Case studies throughout demonstrate fair and accurate diagnosis assessment and treatment. | Social Class and the Helping Professions A Clinician's Guide to Navigating the Landscape of Class in America

GBP 48.99
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature analyzing various innovative interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature including class subjectivities mental health gender and queer studies critical race theory quantitative and scientific methods and transnational perspectives in literary analysis. Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class theory of class and invisibility in literature and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students becoming familiar with class analysis and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.

GBP 205.00
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The Development of an African Working Class Studies in Class Formation and Action

The Development of an African Working Class Studies in Class Formation and Action

Originally published in 1975 this volume reassesses the historical political and social role of African workers and examines the extent to which a working class has formed and undertaken collective action in various parts of Africa. The book is based on primary historical sources or first-hand experiences. The contributors are linked by their belief in the legitimacy of action by organised workers to create a more just society. | The Development of an African Working Class Studies in Class Formation and Action

GBP 80.00
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Learning to Labour How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

Learning to Labour How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world - it has been translated into Finnish German French Swedish Japanese and Spanish. | Learning to Labour How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

GBP 180.00
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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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Straddling Class in the Academy 26 Stories of Students Administrators and Faculty From Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds and Their Compel

Straddling Class in the Academy 26 Stories of Students Administrators and Faculty From Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds and Their Compel

Why do we feel uncomfortable talking about class? Why is it taboo? Why do people often address class through coded terminology like trashy classy and snobby? How does discriminatory language or how do conscious or unconscious derogatory attitudes or the anticipation of such behaviors impact those from poor and working class backgrounds when they straddle class? Through 26 narratives of individuals from poor and working class backgrounds – ranging from students to multiple levels of administrators and faculty both tenured and non-tenured – this book provides a vivid understanding of how people can experience and straddle class in the middle upper or even elitist class contexts of the academy. Through the powerful stories of individuals who hold many different identities-and naming a range of ways they identify in terms of race ethnicity gender sexuality age ability and religion among others-this book shows how social class identity and classism impact people's experience in higher education and why we should focus more attention on this dimension of identity. The book opens by setting the foundation by examining definitions of class discussing its impact on identity and summarizing the literature on class and what it can tell us about the complexities of class identity its fluidity sometimes performative nature and the sense of dissonance it can provoke. This book brings social class identity to the forefront of our consciousness conversations and behaviors and compels those in the academy to recognize classism and reimagine higher education to welcome and support those from poor and working class backgrounds. Its concluding chapter proposes means for both increasing social class consciousness and social class inclusivity in the academy. It is a compelling read for everyone in the academy not least for those from poor or working class backgrounds who will find validation and recognition and draw strength from its vivid stories. | Straddling Class in the Academy 26 Stories of Students Administrators and Faculty From Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds and Their Compel

GBP 29.99
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The Great Class Shift How New Social Class Structures are Redefining Western Politics

The Great Class Shift How New Social Class Structures are Redefining Western Politics

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems to the extent that no politician or political party can exist today without claiming to be speaking on their behalf and no politician can hope to win an electoral majority without building a coalition among these classes. Based on a four-fold analysis - Urban and Liberal Creatives Suburban Middle Class White Working Class and the Millennials - this book shows that while many have focused on a supply-side vision of politics to explain the upheavals in our political party systems a vision centred on demand – and the Weberian take on political parties as vehicles for class interests – is more compelling. In 2016 our political world was changed forever by the victories of Brexit in the UK and Donald Trump in the USA. Far from being confined to the Anglosphere however changes have also rocked the political landscapes in Europe. As the crisis of 2008 has shaken the foundations of Western societies shrinking the size of the previously all-powerful middle class new classes have emerged and with them a new political demand that new (or old) parties have tried to satisfy. This book will be of key interest to political practitioners (politicians advisors/consultants journalists political pundits party builders and government officials) and more broadly to academics students and readers of European and Western politics political sociology party politics and political parties and electoral demographics. | The Great Class Shift How New Social Class Structures are Redefining Western Politics

GBP 36.99
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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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Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes Feelings of Class

Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes Feelings of Class

Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy this book examines the loss of status among former manual labourers. Focus lies on their emotional experiences nostalgic memories hauntings from the past and attachments to their former places of work to transformed neighbourhoods as well as to public space. Against this background the book explores the continued importance of class as workers attempt to manage the declining recognition of their skills and a loss of power in an established-outsider figuration. A study of the transformation of everyday life and social positions wrought by changes in the social structure in urban landscapes and in the structures of feeling this examination of the dynamic of social identity will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology and geography with interests in post-industrial societies social inequality class and social identity. | Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes Feelings of Class

GBP 36.99
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The Kalamari Union: Middle Class in East and West

The Kalamari Union: Middle Class in East and West

First published in 1998 this volume asks: are new social classes in the making in eastern Europe? Are class issues withering away? How do different classes organize their lives what kind of strategies do they adopt in East and West. Markku Kivinen brings Eastern Europe into the class debate. Recent sociological discussions have touched upon questions of class in Eastern Europe only very provisionally. On the other hand old analyses of social stratification under conditions of 'actually existed socialism' are no longer relevant in the current situation. This book analyses processes of class relations in Eastern Europe from new theoretical vantage-points using up-to-date empirical data. Under socialism power was said to be vested in the working class. However there was a constant tension between the 'holy proletariat' and the real life of the working class. Today all political forces in Eastern Europe; leftist and liberal alike are hankering for the middle class. This book explores the real processes in both East and West. This leads to more concrete political and even moral issues. The new 'sacred middle class' is challenged. The contributors adopt several conceptual approaches and perspectives which enter into a fruitful exchange in this book. | The Kalamari Union: Middle Class in East and West

GBP 14.99
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Working Class Youth Culture

Working Class Youth Culture

First published in 1976 Working Class Youth Culture offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint to the law-and-order lobby which treats the youth question as a dreadful pest to be exterminated or caged in. The contributors describe the real conditions of life for working-class youth; how they make sense of the world; and how we can understand their perspective. The subjects discussed include Teddy Boys Mods Skinheads and the Glamrock Cult; dance-hall fights; picking up girls and going steady; how schools manufacture delinquency truancy and vandalism; how working-class kids slide from bad schools to bad jobs or to no jobs at all; Paki-bashing racism and the competition over jobs and houses; how social change in post-war Britain has influenced youth culture; and how social scientists have hidden the real character of youth troubles behind the myth of a classless society. This book will be of interest to students of sociology and anthropology.

GBP 85.00
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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.

GBP 130.00
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Social Class Supports Programs and Practices to Serve and Sustain Poor and Working-Class Students through Higher Education

Social Class Supports Programs and Practices to Serve and Sustain Poor and Working-Class Students through Higher Education

Historically higher education was designed for a narrow pool of privileged students. Despite national state and institutional policies developed over time to improve access higher education has only lately begun to address how its unexamined assumptions practices and climate create barriers for poor and working class populations and lead to significant disparities in degree completion across social classes. The data shows that higher education substantially fails to provide poor and working class students with the necessary support to achieve the social mobility and success comparable to the attainments of their middle and upper class peers. This book presents a comprehensive range of strategies that provide the fundamental supports that poor and working-class students need to succeed while at the same time dismantling the inequitable barriers that make college difficult to navigate. Drawing on the concept of the student-ready college and on emerging research and practices that colleges and universities can use to explore campus-specific social class issues and identify barriers this book provides examples of support programs and services across the field of higher education – at both two- and four-year public and private institutions – that cover:·Access supports. Examples and recommendations for how institutions can assist students as they make decisions about applications and admission. ·Basic needs supports. Covering housing and food security necessary clothing sense of belonging through co-curricular engagement and mental health resources. ·Academic and learning supports. Describes courses and academic programs to promote full engagement among poor and working class students. ·Advising supports. Illustrates advising that acknowledges poor and working class students’ identities and recommends continued training for both staff and faculty advisors. ·Supports for specific populations at the intersection of social class with other identities such as Students of Color foster youth LGBTQ and doctoral students. ·Gaining support through external partnerships with social services business entities and fundraising. This book is addressed to administrators educators and student affairs personnel urging them to make the institutional commitment to enhance the college experience for poor and working class students who not only represent a substantial proportion of college students today but constitute a significant future demographic. | Social Class Supports Programs and Practices to Serve and Sustain Poor and Working-Class Students through Higher Education

GBP 32.99
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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

GBP 110.00
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Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

Based on ethnographic research this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities – of class status and gender. Drawing on their everyday worlds it tracks the intricate and contested meanings they attach to money. Focusing on weddings travel and spirituality Parul Bhandari delineates the entitlements and privileges as well as the obsessions and vulnerabilities that underlie the construction of class the shaping of elite cultures and the curating of femininity. As such this book offers an innovative account of the interplay between money modernity class and gender. | Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

GBP 48.99
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Youth Class and Everyday Struggles

Youth Class and Everyday Struggles

The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit to think about the ways young people are pushed and pulled by the normative demands directed at them from an early age whilst they reflexively understand that allegedly available incentives for making the ‘right’ choices and working hard – financial and familial security social status and job satisfaction – are a declining prospect. In Youth Class and Everyday Struggles the figures of those classed as 'hipsters' and 'bogans' are used to analyse how representation works to form a symbolic and moral economy that produces and polices fuzzy class boundaries. Further to this the practices of young people around DIY cultures are analysed to illustrate struggles to create a satisfying and meaningful existence while negotiating between study work and creative passions. By thinking through different modalities of struggles which revolve around meaning making and identity creativity and authenticity Threadgold brings Bourdieu’s sociological practice together with theories of affect emotion morals and values to broaden our understanding of how young people make choices adapt strategise succeed fail and make do. Youth Class and Everyday Struggles will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers of fields including: Youth Studies Class and Inequality Work and Careers Subcultures Media and Creative Industries Social Theory and Bourdieusian Theory.

GBP 42.99
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Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies

Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies

The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1990s in the context of deindustrialization the rise of the service economy and economic and cultural globalization. The Handbook brings together scholars teachers activists and organizers from across three continents to focus on the study of working-class peoples cultures and politics in all their complexity and diversity. The Handbook maps the current state of the field and presents a visionary agenda for future research by mingling the voices and perspectives of founding and emerging scholars. In addition to a framing Introduction and Conclusion written by the co-editors the volume is divided into six sections: Methods and principles of research in working-class studies; Class and education; Work and community; Working-class cultures; Representations; and Activism and collective action. Each of the six sections opens with an overview that synthesizes research in the area and briefly summarizes each of the chapters in the section. Throughout the volume contributors from various disciplines explore the ways in which experiences and understandings of class have shifted rapidly as a result of economic and cultural globalization social and political changes and global financial crises of the past two decades. Written in a clear and accessible style the Handbook is a comprehensive interdisciplinary anthology for this young but maturing field foregrounding transnational and intersectional perspectives on working-class people and issues and focusing on teaching and activism in addition to scholarly research. It is a valuable resource for activists as well as working-class studies researchers and teachers across the social sciences arts and humanities and it can also be used as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses.

GBP 42.99
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Middle Class Meltdown in America Causes Consequences and Remedies

Middle Class Meltdown in America Causes Consequences and Remedies

Based on income alone nearly half of all adults in the United States can be considered middle class complete with the reassurance of a steady job the ability to raise a family and the comforts of owning a home. And yet for many because of structural forces reshaping the finances of the American middle class the margin between a stable life and a fragile one is narrowing. The new edition of Middle-Class Meltdown in America: Causes Consequences and Remedies tells the story of the struggling American middle class by weaving together sociological and economical research personalized portraits and examples and a profusion of current data illustrating significant social economic and political trends. The authors extend their analysis to include the COVID-19 pandemic a focus on the effect of race and ethnicity as well as the ever-increasing costs of housing health care and education. In clear accessible writing the authors provide a sociological and balanced understanding of the causes and implications of increasing middle class precarity. Middle-Class Meltdown in America is particularly well-suited for courses in sociology economics political science anthropology and American Studies. | Middle Class Meltdown in America Causes Consequences and Remedies

GBP 34.99
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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

GBP 130.00
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