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Book Synopsis Rethinking Class and Social Difference by : Barry Eidlin
Download or read book Rethinking Class and Social Difference written by Barry Eidlin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together scholars rethinking social scientific and theoretical approaches to a wide range of forms of social difference and inequality. These include race, nationalism, sexuality, professional classes, domestic employment, digital communication, and uneven economic development
Download or read book Rethinking Class written by Fiona Devine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by leading British sociologists of stratification, this book advances contemporary debates in class analysis. It draws on current theoretical debates in sociology and considers the implications of the cultural turn for the study of class. It brings together the very latest empirical work on contemporary topics such as culture, identities and lifestyles undertaken by researchers from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. It will be required reading for those committed to pushing the boundaries of class and stratification in new and exciting directions around the world.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Class in Russia by : Suvi Salmenniemi
Download or read book Rethinking Class in Russia written by Suvi Salmenniemi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social differentiation, poverty and the emergence of the newly rich occasioned by the collapse of the Soviet Union have seldom been analysed from a class perspective. Rethinking Class in Russia addresses this absence by exploring the manner in which class positions are constructed and negotiated in the new Russia. Bringing an ethnographic and cultural studies approach to the topic, this book demonstrates that class is a central axis along which power and inequality are organized in Russia, revealing how symbolic, cultural and emotional dimensions are deeply intertwined with economic and material inequalities. Thematically arranged and presenting the latest empirical research, this interdisciplinary volume brings together work from both Western and Russian scholars on a range of spheres and practices, including popular culture, politics, social policy, consumption, education, work, family and everyday life. By engaging with discussions in new class analysis and by highlighting how the logic of global neoliberal capitalism is appropriated and negotiated vis-à-vis the Soviet hierarchies of value and worth, this book offers a multifaceted and carefully contextualized picture of class relations and identities in contemporary Russia and makes a contribution to the theorisation of class and inequality in a post-Cold War era. As such it will appeal to those with interests in sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, gender studies, Russian and Eastern European studies, and media and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning by : Peter Blatchford
Download or read book Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning written by Peter Blatchford and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over whether class size matters for teaching and learning is one of the most enduring, and aggressive, in education research. Teachers often insist that small classes benefit their work. But many experts argue that evidence from research shows class size has little impact on pupil outcomes, so does not matter, and this dominant view has informed policymaking internationally. Here, the lead researchers on the world’s biggest study into class size effects present a counter-argument. Through detailed analysis of the complex relations involved in the classroom they reveal the mechanisms that support teachers’ experience, and conclude that class size matters very much indeed. Drawing on 20 years of systematic classroom observations, surveys of practitioners, detailed case studies and extensive reviews of research, Peter Blatchford and Anthony Russell contend that common ways of researching the impact of class size are limited and sometimes misguided. While class size may have no direct effect on pupil outcomes, it has, they say, significant force through interconnections with classroom processes. In describing these connections, the book opens up the everyday world of the classroom and shows that the influence of class size is everywhere. It impacts on teaching, grouping practices and classroom management, the quality of peer relations, tasks given to pupils, and on the time teachers have for marking, assessments and understanding the strengths and challenges for individual pupils. From their analysis, the authors develop a new social pedagogical model of how class size influences work, and identify policy conclusions and implications for teachers and schools.
Book Synopsis The Middle Classes and the City by : M. Bacqué
Download or read book The Middle Classes and the City written by M. Bacqué and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be middle class in contemporary global cities? What do the middle classes do to these cities and what do these cities do to the middle classes? Do the middle classes engage in social mix or are they focused on 'people like us'? Based on comparative study this book explores middle-class identities across Paris and London.
Book Synopsis Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism by : Alexandre I.R. White
Download or read book Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism written by Alexandre I.R. White and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspectives. Together, these articles serve as an entry point for sharpening our sociological understandings of how racism operates in current times.
Book Synopsis Marxist Thought in South Asia by : Kristin Plys
Download or read book Marxist Thought in South Asia written by Kristin Plys and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forging an anti-imperialist Marxism through dialectical and historical approaches, this volume of Political Power and Social Theory demonstrates how the South Asian facet of this revolutionary tradition can contribute to and even reenergize global Marxist theory.
Download or read book Rethinking Marxism written by Jolyon Agar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue invites readers to consider the results of an original and provocative theoretical project that has taken place in a seminar on "subjects of economy" at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. It provides some insight into the micropolitical process of class transformation.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Social Inequality by : David Robbins
Download or read book Rethinking Social Inequality written by David Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Rethinking Inequality -- 2. White Sociology, Black Struggle -- 3. Female Manual Workers, Fatalism and the Reinforcement of Inequalities -- 4. The Generation Game: Playing by the Rules -- 5. Aging and Inequality: Consumer Culture and the New Middle Age -- 6. Egalitarianism and Social Inequality in Scotland -- 7. Inequality of Access to Political Television: The Case of the General Election of 1979 -- 8. Classes, Class Fractions and Monetarism -- 9. Moral Economy and the Welfare State -- 10. Towards a Celebration of Difference(s): Notes for a sociology of a possible everyday future
Book Synopsis Rethinking Globalization by : Bill Bigelow
Download or read book Rethinking Globalization written by Bill Bigelow and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2002 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents lessons and activities covering the topics of social justice and globalization.
Book Synopsis Vanishing Moments by : Eric Schocket
Download or read book Vanishing Moments written by Eric Schocket and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America’s long engagement with the problem of class stratification and demonstrates how deeply America’s desire to deny the presence of class has marked even its most labor-conscious cultural texts. Schocket offers careful readings of works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes, among others, and explores how these authors worked to try to heal the rift between the classes. He considers the challenges writers faced before the Civil War in developing a language of class amidst the predominant concerns about race and slavery; how early literary realists dealt with the threat of class insurrection; how writers at the turn of the century attempted to span the divide between the classes by going undercover as workers; how early modernists used working-class characters and idioms to shape their aesthetic experiments; and how leftists in the 1930s struggled to develop an adequate model to connect class and literature. Vanishing Moments’ unique combination of a broad historical scope and in-depth readings makes it an essential book for scholars and students of American literature and culture, as well as for political scientists, economists, and humanists. Eric Schocket is Associate Professor of American Literature at Hampshire College. “An important book containing many brilliant arguments—hard-hitting and original. Schocket demonstrates a sophisticated acquaintance with issues within the working-class studies movement.” --Barbara Foley, Rutgers University
Book Synopsis The Radical Middle Class by : Robert D. Johnston
Download or read book The Radical Middle Class written by Robert D. Johnston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business sector or petite bourgeoisie, using Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, as a case study, Robert Johnston shows that class still matters in America. But it matters only if the politics and culture of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived. This book is a powerful combination of intellectual, business, labor, medical, and, above all, political history. Its author also humanizes the middle class by describing the lives of four small business owners: Harry Lane, Will Daly, William U'Ren, and Lora Little. Lane was Portland's reform mayor before becoming one of only six senators to vote against U.S. entry into World War I. Daly was Oregon's most prominent labor leader and a onetime Socialist. U'Ren was the national architect of the direct democracy movement. Little was a leading antivaccinationist. The Radical Middle Class further explores the Portland Ku Klux Klan and concludes with a national overview of the American middle class from the Progressive Era to the present. With its engaging narrative, conceptual richness, and daring argumentation, it will be welcomed by all who understand that reexamining the middle class can yield not only better scholarship but firmer grounds for democratic hope.
Book Synopsis Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions by : Sally Hines
Download or read book Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions written by Sally Hines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities.
Book Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies by : Patricia Hill Collins
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies written by Patricia Hill Collins and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies is one of the best handbooks outlining the latest thinking on race and ethnic studies published in recent years...The breadth of themes and the depth of discussion are ambitious, offering the reader an A-Z guide of contemporary thinking on race and ethnicity...a valuable resource for scholars and activists alike." - Runnymede Bulletin What is the state of race and ethnic studies today? How has the field emerged? What are the core concepts, debates and issues? This panoramic, critical survey of the field supplies researchers and students with a vital resource. It is a rigorous, focused examination of the central questions in the field today. The text examines: The roots of the field of race and ethnic studies. The distinction between race and ethnicity. Methodological issues facing researchers. Intersections between race and ethnicity and questions of sexuality, gender, nation and social transformation. The challenge of multiculturalism. Race, ethnicity and globalization. Race and the family. Race and education. Race and religion. Planned and edited by a distinguished team of Anglo-American scholars, the Handbook pools an impressive range of international world class expertise and insight. It provides a landmark work in the field which will be the measure of debate and research for years to come.
Book Synopsis Theories of Power and Domination by : Angus Stewart
Download or read book Theories of Power and Domination written by Angus Stewart and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power and domination are central concepts in social science yet, up to now, they have been undertheorized. This wide-ranging book guides students through the complexities and implications of both concepts. It provides systematic accounts of current debates about the dynamics and rationale of state power in an era of globalization, social citizenship and the significance of social movements. The contributions of Parsons, Giddens, Foucault, Mann, Arendt, Habermas and Castells are clearly set out and critically assessed.
Book Synopsis Revisioning Gender by : Myra Marx Ferree
Download or read book Revisioning Gender written by Myra Marx Ferree and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1999 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook attempts to summarize the state of gender studies not only by examining the crucial research of the past decade, but by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. Building on the work started by the contributors to this volume's predecessor (Analyzing Gender, Sage 1987), editors Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess reflect on the advances of gender scholarship during the past decade with its emphasis on all levels of social structure from the most macro to the most individual. Revisioning Gender is a step toward constructing a new analytical approach for the social sciences, one that calls into question disciplinary boundaries and the specific agendas entailed therein.
Book Synopsis Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 by : Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Download or read book Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 written by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing ways. Using self-narratives drawn from a wide range of sources - the raw materials of sociological studies, transcripts from oral history projects, Mass Observation, and autobiography - the book examines class identities and narratives of social change between 1968 and 2000, showing that by the end of the period, class was often seen as an historical identity, related to background and heritage, and that many felt strict class boundaries had blurred quite profoundly since 1945. Class snobberies 'went underground', as many people from all backgrounds began to assert that what was important was authenticity, individuality, and ordinariness. In fact, Sutcliffe-Braithwaite argues that it is more useful to understand the cultural changes of these years through the lens of the decline of deference, which transformed people's attitudes towards class, and towards politics. The study also examines the claim that Thatcher and New Labour wrote class out of politics, arguing that this simple - and highly political - narrative misses important points. Thatcher was driven by political ideology and necessity to try to dismiss the importance of class, while the New Labour project was good at listening to voters - particularly swing voters in marginal seats - and echoing back what they were increasingly saying about the blurring of class lines and the importance of ordinariness. But this did not add up to an abandonment of a majoritarian project, as New Labour reoriented their political project to emphasize using the state to empower the individual.
