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  • Access to Inequality
    Amy E. Stich / Amy EStich
    In the interest of uncovering the mechanisms through which democratization, as currently conceived, preserves and perpetuates inequality within the system of higher education, this bookreconsiders the role of social class in the production and dissemination of knowledge, the valuation of cultural capital, and the reproduction of social inequality. ...
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    63,07 €

  • Against Austerity
    Richard Seymour
    Five years into capitalism’s deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life? In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class...
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    31,88 €

  • The Ruling Ideas
    Amy E. Wendling / Amy EWendling
    The concepts that organize our thinking wield, by virtue of this fact, a great deal of political power. This book looks at five concepts whose dominion has increased, steadily, during the bourgeois period of modernity: Labor, Time, Property, Value, and Crisis. These ruling ideas are central not only to many academic disciplines— from philosophy and law to the political, social,...
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    64,44 €

  • The Mediation of Poverty
    Joanna Redden
    The Mediation of Poverty examines the impact of digital technologies on poverty politics in Canada and the United Kingdom. As the first transnational comparison of poverty coverage, this book provides several research contributions, including an inside account of how digital technologies are changing media as well as political and activist working practices. The book effectivel...
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    132,10 €

  • Social Movements and Global Social Change
    Robert K. Schaeffer / Robert KSchaeffer
    The book examines different types of social movements, including those often ignored in social change textbooks, such as riots, migration, and disorganized protest. It also looks at citizens’ rights and inequality in connection to social movements and change. The book features global perspectives and examples throughout. ...
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    166,31 €

  • Social Movements and Global Social Change
    Robert K. Schaeffer / Robert KSchaeffer
    The book examines different types of social movements, including those often ignored in social change textbooks, such as riots, migration, and disorganized protest. It also looks at citizens’ rights and inequality in connection to social movements and change. The book features global perspectives and examples throughout. ...
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    55,43 €

  • England
    Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz / Lois EBueler
    J. W. von Archenholtz’s England is a political and sociological description of Great Britain during the second half of the 18th century. Based primarily on Archenholtz’s firsthand observations from 1769 to 1779, England looks with precision and anecdotal detail at the behavior of Britons of all ranks. ...
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    149,13 €

  • Mediated Images of the South
    Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Slade, Givens-Carroll, and Narro, seeks to explore and understand the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture by looking at images in politics, film, television, public relations, advertising, sports and social media. ...
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    64,04 €

  • Broken Promises of Globalization
    Shahidur Rahman
    Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry contributes to the contemporary debate on the limits and possibilities of globalization to the global south. It examines how a Least Developed Country is dealing with both domestic and external pressures in its response to neo-liberalization. ...
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    132,26 €

  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860
    Leonardo Buonomo
    This book examines fiction and nonfiction texts from the period 1830 to 1860 to demonstrate how major and minor American writers constructed their country’s identity by contrasting their own characteristics with those of innumerable immigrants. Confronted with newcomers whose cultural and social background made them appear more alien than their predecessors, American writers re...
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    111,25 €

  • Colonial Capital Theory at Work
    O. Alexander Miller / OAlexander Miller
    Colonial Capital Theory at Work is a contribution to the emerging Caribbean and an explanation of how “sociological imagination,” or the links between history and biography, have been intentionally used by some to achieve prosperity. ...
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    133,44 €

  • Social Control and the Education of Adults in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
    J. Jeffrey Robinson / JJeffrey Robinson
    An almost universal concern of the Victorian governing classes was with the question of social control: how to deflect a largely uneducated working class from their inevitable challenge to the centres of power, accepted value systems and existing authority structures. The fear in which the masses were held by the middle and upper classes came to dominate access to education or,...
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    50,70 €

  • Materializing Poverty
    Erin B. Taylor / Erin BTaylor
    In Materializing Poverty, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community. Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate ...
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    130,71 €

  • The Ruling Class in Italy Before 1900
    Vilfredo Pareto
    2013 Reprint of 1950 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book is a collection of four essays published by Pareto regarding the ruling class in Italy. The major essay is in English and the rest are in French. Essays include:1. The Parliamentary Regime in Italy.2. Lettre d’Italie [two essays]3. L’Etatisme...
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    14,88 €

  • CLASS AND CLASS CONFLICT IN POST-SOCIALIST CHINA
    ALVIN Y SO / Alvin Y. So / Alvin YSo
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    120,66 €

  • Black Middle-Class Women and Pregnancy Loss
    Lisa Paisley-Cleveland
    Black Middle-Class Women and Pregnancy Loss: A Qualitative Inquiry is the first qualitative research case study of its kind focused on Black American born middle-class professional married women who have all lived through infant loss. This study examines the Infant Mortality disparity (blacks 12.40, whites 5.35) outside the poverty paradigm, with probable implications for minor...
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    133,57 €

  • Homeless Hero
    Mike Tapscott
    Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 Great Southwest Book Festival - Homeless Hero: Understanding the Soul of Home considers the human mission to know the soul and navigate life experiences. Tapscott’s book explores humanity in a way that is vibrantly vivid and personally accessible to the reader. Many questions that we have probably asked ourselves at one time or another are address...
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    21,94 €

  • Race and Gender in the Classroom
    Laurie Cooper Stoll
    Race and Gender in the Classroom explores the paradoxes of education, race, and gender, as Laurie Cooper Stoll follows eighteen teachers carrying out their roles as educators in an era of “post-racial” and “post-gendered” politics. ...
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    119,79 €

  • The New Class Society
    David Wright / Earl Wysong / Robert Perrucci
    The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequality. The fourth edition demonstrates how and why class differences in the United States have become more entrenched than ever. Revised and reorganized, this edition features a new introduction and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics—from the Great Recession to how electronic...
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    67,57 €

  • The New Class Society
    David Wright / Earl Wysong / Robert Perrucci
    The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequality. The fourth edition demonstrates how and why class differences in the United States have become more entrenched than ever. Revised and reorganized, this edition features a new introduction and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics—from the Great Recession to how electronic...
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    176,88 €

  • Battlers & Billionaires
    Andrew Leigh
    Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best.From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more e...
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    22,08 €

  • Seeing Through the System
    Gus Bagakis
    Most people think of class as a ranking system-the more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible. Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, sel...
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    30,54 €

  • Seeing Through the System
    Gus Bagakis
    Most people think of class as a ranking system-the more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible. Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, sel...
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    22,13 €

  • Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond
    This book contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond. ...
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    142,28 €

  • Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel
    Beverly Mizrachi
    While first-generation immigrant women often begin their lives at the bottom of their new societies, the fates of their adult daughters can be very different. Still, little research has been done to examine the opportunities or constraints that second-generation women face and the class achievements they make. In this volume, author Beverly Mizrachi presents an in-depth study o...
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    68,31 €

  • Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege
    Jessica Holden Sherwood
    Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege reports on interviews with members of exclusive country clubs in the Northeast. The club members explain their exclusive and sometimes sexist practices. Their talk both relies on and reproduces popular discourse. The author shows how club members end up justifying and maintaining their class, race, and gender privileges. ...
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    55,90 €

  • Class Politics
    Stephen Parks
    'Stephen Parks restores politics to the history of Composition Studies.' -Richard Ohmann | CLASS POLITICS THE MOVEMENT FOR THE STUDENTS’ RIGHT TO THEIR OWN LANGUAGE (Second Edition) is a response to histories of Composition Studies that focused on scholarly articles and university programs as the generative source for the field. Such histories, particularly in the 1980s and 199...
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    40,37 €

  • The Cosby Cohort
    Cherise A. Harris / Cherise AHarris
    The Cosby Cohort examines the now-grown children who were raised in the black middle class. This probing book studies how their parents established their middle class position, how they interact with white America, the pressures placed upon them by their parents, how they connect with African Americans of other social classes, and more. ...
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    141,46 €

  • To Live and Die in America
    Ian Hudson / Robert Chernomas
    Reviled as one of the worst healthcare providers in the world, the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world, whilst paradoxically spending significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation. Economists Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory phenomenon as the product of the unique brand of c...
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    42,16 €

  • The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
    Friedrich Engels
    2012 Reprint of 1950 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally written in German and published in English in 1892 this is a classic a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels’ first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart...
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    13,25 €


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