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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

This volume explores the emergence evolution and definition of the middle class in India. As a class created as the interpreters between the colonial rulers and the millions whom they governed in the pre-Independence era the Indian middle class has existed in congruence with the state occupying vital positions in state administration. Since Independence this middle class underwent major sociological change as they live independent of the state which affected their social economic and political position reaping benefits of liberalisation and globalisation through education and employment. An otherwise internally differentiated and heterogeneous group the new Indian middle class often unifies itself to shape socio-political discourse that affects politics and policymaking from domestic to international affairs. This volume analyses this class phenomenon through a close study of a new metropolitan middle class in India – the software professionals emblematic of the 'new India’. It discusses this emerging class as a political category and their engagements with the state democracy political parties issues of gender basic necessities and social justice. Further it discusses their social action and ‘middle class activism’ for issues such as environment cleanliness and corruption particularly highlighting its presence in the private sector and electronic media. A fresh perspective on India’s political milieu this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology modern Indian history political science economics and South Asia studies. | Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society

Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society

Originally published in England in 1959 this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way of illustrating and testing this theory the book provides detailed analyses of various social phenomena. The author carries out a full critique of Marx in the light of history and modern sociology and discusses the theories of class-conflict of James Burnham Fritz Croner and Karl Renner. | Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society

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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

This book argues that due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in England was in a state of flux-a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel. Late-century writers such as Gissing James Hardy and Wells question the middle-class Victorian views of class that had dominated the novel for decades. By disrupting traditional novelistic conventions these writers reveal the ideology of the historical moment in which those conventions obtained thereby questioning the 'naturalness' of class assumed by earlier middle-class Victorian writers. The book contextualizes novels by these writers within their historical moment with reference to relevant maps journalism artwork or photography and specific historical events. It illuminates the relationship between fiction and history in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction and especially the relationship between changing depictions of class and the development of realism. Examining the nineteenth-century English novel through the lens of social class allows the twenty-first century critic and student not only to understand the issues at stake in much Victorian fiction but also to recognize powerful present-day vestiges of this social class system. | Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

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Revival: Class Structure and Social Mobility in Poland (1980)

Revival: Class Structure and Social Mobility in Poland (1980)

How far have sociologists working in countries commonly designated as socialist gone in studying the class structure and social consciousness of their own societies? What kinds of questions have they posed and what is the degree of technical sophistication applied in answering them? Western sociologists interested in the fate of their discipline in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have long recognized that the answers to these questions will differ substantially depending upon which particular socialist society one has in mind. The selection from Polish sociological literature brought together here by Stomczynski and Krauze should help to answer the questions raised and provide readers with the opportunity to assess the quality of Polish sociological studies in the areas of class structure social mobility and class consciousness. | Revival: Class Structure and Social Mobility in Poland (1980)

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Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class

Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class

From the late eighteenth century the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions war the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807 parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the ‘fall of the planter class’ offering a variety of new approaches to the topic encompassing economic political cultural and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies. | Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class

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The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The objectives of this study first published in 1982 are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines the development of the ‘dual economy’ an economy composed of a large peasant agricultural sector with its ancillary handicraft sector both traditional in techniques and institutions and a small but growing modern industrial sector. | The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

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Education Inequality and Social Class Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity

Education Inequality and Social Class Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity

Education Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most important theoretical perspectives that have been developed to understand class-based inequality and frame further research. With clear explanations of essential concepts this book draws on empirical data from the UK and other countries to illustrate the nature and scale of inequalities according to social background discussing the interactions of class-based inequalities with those according to race and gender. The book relates aspects of inequality to the features of educational systems showing how policy choices impact on the life chances of children from different class backgrounds. The relationship between education and social mobility is also explored using the concepts of social closure positionality and social congestion. The book also provides detailed discussions of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein two important theorists whose contributions have generated thriving research traditions much used in contemporary educational research. Education Inequality and Social Class will be essential reading for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students engaged in the study of education childhood studies and sociology. It will also be of great interest to academics researchers and teachers in training. | Education Inequality and Social Class Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity

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Family Fortunes Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850

Family Fortunes Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850

First published to wide critical acclaim in 1987 Family Fortunes has become a seminal text in class and gender history and its influence in the field continues to be extensive today. The book explores the middle-class family and its place in the development of capitalist society. It argues that gender and class need to be thought about together – that class was always gendered and gender always classed. Divided into three parts the book covers religion and ideology economic structure and opportunity and gender in action across two main case studies: the rural counties of Suffolk and Essex and the industrial town of Birmingham. This third edition contains a new introductory section by Catherine Hall reflecting on some of the major developments in historical thinking over the last fifteen years and discussing the evolution of key themes such as the family. Providing critical insight into the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850 this volume is essential reading for students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social history. | Family Fortunes Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850

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The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety

This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge techniques it carefully maps the distribution of the key sources of power and documents the major convergences and divergences between market societies old and new. Establishing that the multidimensional vision of class proposed decades ago by Pierre Bourdieu appears to hold good throughout Europe parts of the wider Western world and Eastern Asia the book goes on to examine a number of significant themes: the relationship between class and occupation; the intersection of class with gender religion geography and age; the correspondences between social position and political attitudes; self-positioning in the class structure; and the extent of belief in meritocracy. For all the striking cross-national commonalities however the book unearths consistent variations seemingly linked to distinct politico-economic regimes. This title will appeal to scholars and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology politics and demography and is essential reading for all those interested in social class across the globe. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety

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Talking White Trash Mediated Representations and Lived Experiences of White Working-Class People

Talking White Trash Mediated Representations and Lived Experiences of White Working-Class People

Talking White Trash documents the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people—a task inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to understand herself through watching films and television shows. The increasing presence of white working-class people in media particularly within the genre of reality television and their role in fueling the unprecedented rise of Donald Trump has made this population a central subject of U. S. cultural discourse. Rather than relying solely on analyses of mediated portrayals Dunn makes use of personal narratives interviews focus groups textual analysis and critical autoethnography to specifically analyze how popular media articulates certain ideas about white working-class people and how those who identify as members of this population including herself negotiate such articulations. Dunn’s work provides alternative stories that are rarely if ever found in popular media—stories that feature the varied reactions and lived experiences of white working-class people; stories that talk to talk with and talk back to mediated representations and dominant cultural ideas; stories that illuminate the multidimensionality of a population that is often portrayed in one-dimensional ways; stories that move inside and outside the white working-class to better understand their role within and influence upon U. S. culture. | Talking White Trash Mediated Representations and Lived Experiences of White Working-Class People

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Seeing Cities Change Local Culture and Class

Seeing Cities Change Local Culture and Class

Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city. Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyze how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe. Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing' and in its consideration of questions of migration ethnicity diversity community identity class and culture will appeal to sociologists anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces. | Seeing Cities Change Local Culture and Class

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Unequal America Class Conflict the News Media and Ideology in an Era of Record Inequality

Unequal America Class Conflict the News Media and Ideology in an Era of Record Inequality

This book examines Americans and their beliefs about the class divide in the United States. It argues that Americans’ beliefs about class and the economic divide develop through a multistep process. Economic affluence influences the development of worldview measured in terms of ideology partisanship and self-identified class consciousness. Class consciousness in turn affects how people look at political and economic issues. This book is intended for scholars and students at every level who study inequality from a political economic or sociological position along with general readers with a growing interest in and awareness of the effects of inequality on our democracy especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the resulting economic contraction and the protests over racial injustice erupting throughout the world in 2020. | Unequal America Class Conflict the News Media and Ideology in an Era of Record Inequality

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