Catálogo de libros: Clases sociales

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  • Britain in fragments
    Brendan McGeever / Satnam Virdee
    Britain today is falling apart, with Brexit’s break from the European Union, looming Scottish independence, deepening inequalities and reinvigorated racism. How has it come to this? Britain in fragments traces how the historic pillars of democracy have begun to crumble, from their apex in the post-war welfare state to the present day. ...
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    145,08 €

  • Britain in fragments
    Brendan McGeever / Satnam Virdee
    Britain today is falling apart, with Brexit’s break from the European Union, looming Scottish independence, deepening inequalities and reinvigorated racism. How has it come to this? Britain in fragments traces how the historic pillars of democracy have begun to crumble, from their apex in the post-war welfare state to the present day. ...
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    36,05 €

  • Learning to Stop
    Remy Y.S. Low
    This book is a philosophical and historical study that explores how meditative practices for cultivating mindfulness can be regarded as a unique form of education against violence-one that emphasizes stopping and contemplation as a necessary precursor to action. It brings together the idiosyncratic but insightful musings on violence by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek with re...
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    48,70 €

  • Incarcerated Young People, Education and Social Justice
    Fiona MacDonald / Kitty te Riele / Tim Corcoran
    This book foregrounds the provision of education for young people who have been remanded or sentenced into custody. Both international conventions and national legislation and guidelines in many countries point to the right of children and young people to access education while they are incarcerated. Moreover, education is often seen as an important protective and ’rehabilitati...
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    48,05 €

  • The Inheritance of Inequality
    F. L. Jones / Leonard Broom / Patrick McDonnell
    Originally published in 1980, The Inheritance of Inequality is an important contribution to the study of social mobility in Australia. The book is based on findings from a survey of nearly 5,000 Australians who were interviewed about their family backgrounds and occupational careers. ...
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    153,23 €

  • Middle-Class Couples
    Stephen Edgell
    When this book was originally published in 1980, sociologists had long held the view that the middle-class marriage in contemporary Britain was characterised by role desegregation and marital equality. Middle-Class Couples reported on research which provided a critical re-analysis of this orthodoxy. ...
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    153,50 €

  • Reflections on Inequality
    Stanislav Andreski
    Originally published in 1975, this anthology of essays focusses on the historical dimension of class inequality which has long concerned both sociologists and social philosophers but has often been neglected in literature. ...
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    153,45 €

  • GREAT TRANSITION IN INDIA
    MISU KIM CHANWAHN KIM
    India has been experiencing a significant transition as the new generation born after the economic reforms in 1991 has emerged as a main player in the Indian society. Now in their 20s and 30s, this generation has different attitudes and preferences toward religion, politics and consumption from their parents. As a result, the country is also witnessing rapid changes.This book s...
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    105,79 €

  • Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism
    Madelaine Moore
    Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as an emergent process constituted through struggle. ...
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    157,46 €

  • Grown in Delhi
    Jessica Ann Diehl
    This book explores how power relationships, measured through qualitative social network analysis, impact planning participation and livelihood strategies of a marginalized group of farmers cultivating the Yamuna River floodplain in Delhi, India. Through an in-depth study of 165 farming households facing land development, this book offers insights from the ground-up into how soc...
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    47,79 €

  • Rich Crime, Poor Crime
    Colin Webster
    An important and challenging book comprehensively spanning across the establishment of power systems, Rich Crime, Poor Crime is a vital read for academics, professionals and those interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics. ...
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    56,94 €

  • Medical Tyranny
    Michael Morton
    The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world in many ways. Governments around the world have implemented various measures to control the spread of the virus, including lockdowns, mandatory mask mandates, and restrictions on gatherings. While these measures may have been implemented with good intentions, they have also raised concerns about medical tyranny and the suppression of ...
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    10,65 €

  • Unsheltered Love
    Traci Medford-Rosow
    Unsheltered Love provides a first-hand reported account of how the homeless in New York City survived the pandemic. ...
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    16,42 €

  • The Rural-Migration Nexus
    This edited collection aims to examine the global-rural relationship of migration that shapes rural places. It does this by acknowledging that to understand the impact of the international migration-global nexus, it is essential to explore how it is experienced at a local level - in the context of this book, rural regions. Focusing on agribusiness and rural development, as well...
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    48,21 €

  • A Study of Suicide in Rural China
    Yanwu Liu
    This book identifies and analyzes the significant regional differences in suicide rates of various age groups and different sexes among Chinese rural residents. It goes beyond the analytic dichotomy in traditional Western suicide studies and argues that the phenomena of suicide among Chinese farmers are the result of a combination of social structure and social action, rather t...
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    48,48 €

  • Income Inequality, Redistribution and Economic Growth
    Giuseppe Arbia
    This book focuses on economic inequality, its measurement, and its relationship with economic growth and development. The current literature uses multiple points of view, ranging from ethical, legal, philosophical, to political and economic, to understand the nature of (in)equality. Presenting the problem objectively, this book shows how to measure the phenomenon statistically ...
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    48,26 €

  • Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan
    Hannah Schilling
    The comparative ethnography of young airtime sellers in Abidjan and delivery riders in Berlin analyses experiences of precarity for young men in the urban digital economy. It points to the relevance of symbolic capital in relational mechanisms of closure, domination and exploitation for making a living in globalised precarity. ...
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    157,46 €

  • Social Inequalities
    Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world through a decolonised lens, offering a critical re-reading of traditional approaches to understanding social inequalities. ...
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    162,53 €

  • Social Inequalities
    Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world through a decolonised lens, offering a critical re-reading of traditional approaches to understanding social inequalities. ...
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    49,75 €

  • The Economic Consequences of the Peace
    John Maynard Keynes
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) is a book written and published by the British economist John Maynard Keynes. After the First World War, Keynes attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as a delegate of the British Treasury. In his book, he argued for a much more generous peace, not out of a desire for justice or fairness - these are aspects of the peace that Ke...
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    28,20 €

  • Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic
    This book looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants globally who bear disproportionate burdens of health disparities. Centering the voices of migrants as anchors for theorizing health, the chapters adopt an array of decolonizing and interventionist methodologies that offer conceptual communicative resources for re-organizing economics, politics, culture, and soci...
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    48,17 €

  • Managing for Social Justice
    The book introduces a preliminary, integrative conceptual framework on the intersections between management and social justice with a view that the quest for social justice is not an endpoint rather an ongoing journey. With contributions from management scholars and practitioners, it highlights, examines, and explores the continuities and discontinuities, gains and losses, and ...
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    46,87 €

  • Income Inequality in America
    Robert Rycroft / Stacey Jones
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    81,92 €

  • Futures of Anti-Racism
    Ian Law / Nikolay Zakharov / Shirley Anne Tate
    ​This book assesses the nature and extent of the project of deracialisation required to counter the contemporary dynamics of racialisation across four varieties of modernity: Sweden, South Africa, Brazil and the UK, based on original research on each of the four country contexts. Since racism began to be recognised or identified as a problem, an assemblage of supra-national ini...
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    47,94 €

  • Mobility and Inequality Trends
    Mobility and Inequality Trends is the 30th volume of Research on Economic Inequality and features insightful and original papers from the 9th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. ...
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    170,27 €

  • Dear Marin
    Felicia I. Chavez
    Former Marin County community organizer and promoter of 'systems thinking' shares her first-person voice following on insights gathered over five years of local experience. This book is full of specific datapoints, examples, and suggestions for making the world a better place, beginning with Marin County residents learning more about the very real challenges within their own co...
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    34,94 €

  • Asian American Educators and Microaggressions
    Andrew Wu
    This book explores the effects of racial microaggressions on Asian American (AA) faculty members currently at higher education institutions utilizing the frameworks of the Model Minority Myth and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype. The book delves into how AAPI faculty members were able to individually navigate and transcend at college and universities. Chapters offer original insi...
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    48,57 €

  • Globalisation, Values Education and Teaching Democracy
    This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to values education, cultural identity and teaching democracy, set against the backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to values education and teaching democracy in schools. Th...
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    48,06 €

  • The Open World, Hackbacks and Global Justice
    A. Jean Thomas
    This book explores the current impasse that global regulators face in the digital sphere. Computer technology has advanced human civilization tenfold, but the freedom to interact with others in cyberspace has made individuals, discrete communities, organizations and governments more vulnerable to abuse.  In consequence, political decision-makers are seriously considering granti...
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    47,69 €

  • Restorative Justice in the Classroom
    Crystena A. H. Parker-Shandal
    This book focuses on how teachers can transmit and practice values through classroom circles that attend to and empower all students’ voices. A growing number of teachers are using relational pedagogy, drawing on Indigenous circle practice, as a pedagogical tool. Done well, circles can build and sustain dialogue and peaceful relations. Done poorly, circles reflect and reinforce...
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    47,91 €


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