Social Class – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 7

Juyeon Park

Families for Mobility

Families for Mobility documents elite Korean transnational families, focusing on how they use elite education abroad as a tool for class reproduction. Drawing on interviews with parents and children at el…

Amy Shea

Too Poor to Die

When someone dies indigent, homeless, disenfranchised from society, or without family or friends, there may be no easy path to resting in peace. With over half a million people experiencing homelessness i…

Amy Shea

Too Poor to Die

When someone dies indigent, homeless, disenfranchised from society, or without family or friends, there may be no easy path to resting in peace. With over half a million people experiencing homelessness i…

J. Elle

Shadows of Perl

An instant USA TODAY bestseller! Return to the dazzling romantic fantasy world of the blockbuster bestseller House of Marionne, in this dark and deadly sequel full of forbidden magic, devastating lies, an…

Henrique Costa

In the Remains of Progress

A bold proposal for an ethnographic approach to popular entrepreneurship based on the experience of wageless life in Brazil.In the Remains of Progressbegins from the historical premise that self-employmen…

Gezi at Ten

Upon the tenth anniversary of the Gezi protests, this rousing collection takes on the task of critically re-examining the social uprising of June 2013 in Turkey and in the process fills in blind spots in …

Joseph P Viteritti

Radical Dreamers

In Radical Dreamers, Joseph P. Viteritti presents a wide-ranging history of the most controversial educational reform movement in America: school choice. Using it as a lens for observing the broader histo…

Patrick Eiden-Offe

The Poetry of Class

In the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon…

China in Contemporary Capitalism

China in Contemporary Capitalism presents outstanding research in Political Economy on the economic, social, and political development of China from a unique Global South-centred perspective.The authors c…

J Malcolm Garcia

Alabama Village

From the celebrated writer J. Malcolm Garcia, a narrative nonfiction account of a forgotten Alabama neighborhood through intimate, tender, and gritty profiles of its people as they navigate immense loss a…

Robert Wuthnow

The Left Behind

"Wuthnow cogently confronts the question: Why are so many of the people living in small-town America filled with rage? Instead of condemning, he listens. In this highly accessible, instructive book, …

Robert J Sampson

Marked by Time

A leading sociologist's groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children's futures.Between 1970 and…

John A Powell, Stephen Menendian

Belonging Without Othering

"In a world marked by extreme divisions--from global conflicts to grave human rights violations--public figures struggle to find words that capture humanity's inclination to fracture itself. Througho…

Deborah James

Clawing Back

"The impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade. In settings whe…

Deborah James

Clawing Back

"The impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade. In settings whe…

Gönenç Uysal

Class, Capital, State, and Late Development

In Class, Capital, State, and Late Development: The Political Economy of Military Interventions in Turkey, Gönenç Uysal discusses state-military-society relations in Turkey from the late Ottoman era to to…

CBGB: A New York Soundtrack 1975 - 1986

Kristian Williams

Policing the Progressive City

The dangers of "progressive policing" as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.Policing the Progressive City tells the story of how Portland's "law and order" has been shaped for ov…

Melissa S Kearney

The Two-Parent Privilege

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country's biggest economic problems.In The Two-Parent Privilege , Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for …