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Understanding Society - Poverty, Wealth and Inequality in the UK (Paperback): Carlo Morelli, Paul Seaman Understanding Society - Poverty, Wealth and Inequality in the UK (Paperback)
Carlo Morelli, Paul Seaman
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

First book to use eight waves of Understanding Society longituidal data study to provide most comprehensive analysis to date of poverty and wealth distribution across the UK. 100 graphs and tables which present this information in a concise and readable form. Written by two academics whose work is regularly used by both the devolved Scottish government and at UK level e.g. their work was used in bring about universal provision of free school meals at primary level.

Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019 - Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values (Paperback): Carola Hommerich,... Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019 - Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values (Paperback)
Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo, Toru Kikkawa
R1,203 Discovery Miles 12 030 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Based on extensive survey data, this book examines how the population of Japan has experienced and processed three decades of rapid social change from the highly egalitarian high growth economy of the 1980s to the economically stagnating and demographically shrinking gap society of the 2010s. It discusses social attitudes and values towards, for example, work, gender roles, family, welfare and politics, highlighting certain subgroups which have been particularly affected by societal changes. It explores social consciousness and concludes that although many Japanese people identify as middle class, their reasons for doing so have changed over time, with the result that the optimistic view prevailing in the 1980s, confident of upward mobility, has been replaced by people having a much more realistic view of their social status.

Some Young People (Hardcover): Pearl Jephcott Some Young People (Hardcover)
Pearl Jephcott
R2,571 Discovery Miles 25 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The Richardson boys ganged up with two other big families in their buildings and, at various ages, had tried out most of the local youth organisations. Bert Richardson with a suitable set of brothers and mates, was in the Scouts, but they got ejected. Later, at thirteen, he joined a boys' club for its boxing and football, and belonged on and off till he was sixteen. Then he suddenly dropped out." Why did Bert drop out? Originally published in 1954, the answer forms the substance of Some Young People, the report of an inquiry into adolescents' reactions to their local youth groups. Besides answering the question "Who joins what?" (and two thirds of these thousand youngsters of 14 to 17 were not members of any youth organisation) the book describes some of the hopes, pleasures and difficulties of such people as Frances, the chocolate packer, who has ambition to marry before long; and John, the carpenter's apprentice, whose passions are autocycling, pigeons and pigs. It also throws light on problems such as those presented by gangs; and suggests the importance of "my friends," the closely-knit set who mean so much to the adolescent.

The Social Analysis of Class Structure (Hardcover): Frank Parkin The Social Analysis of Class Structure (Hardcover)
Frank Parkin
R5,985 Discovery Miles 59 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1974 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies - Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety (Paperback): Will Atkinson The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies - Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety (Paperback)
Will Atkinson
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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 available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Women and Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, Facsimile Ed): Mike Sanders Women and Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, Facsimile Ed)
Mike Sanders
R22,956 Discovery Miles 229 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This important collection of writings is about, and by, women connected with social and political movements between 1799-1870. It also records the attitudes of the great radical reformers to the role of women in society and documents the vast cultural changes brought about by industrialisation.
The collection draws together the following key material:
Volume I contains an extensive collection of writings from 19th century periodicals, reflecting the high point of working class women's involvement in radical movements.
Volume II focuses on the writings of Frances Wright, an important figure in radical circles in both Britain and the US.
Volume III illustrates the debates of the period surrounding marriage, sexuality and family. Included are writings by Frances Morrison, Robert Dale Owen, William Cobbett and William Lovett.
Volume IV reprints J. D. Milne's 'Industrial Employment of Women'. This important but neglected text argues for the direct engagement of women in all areas of industrial life.
This collection will appeal to anyone with an interest in women's history and Victorian studies.

Show Them You're Good - A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College (Hardcover): Jeff Hobbs Show Them You're Good - A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College (Hardcover)
Jeff Hobbs
R748 R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Save R124 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Social Security and Society (Paperback): Victor George Social Security and Society (Paperback)
Victor George
R1,005 Discovery Miles 10 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Originally published in 1973, Social Security and Society examines of the dominant forces that form the British social security system and argues that social security provision is not the result of concern felt by the dominant groups in society. Instead the book suggests that it is the result of the threat posed to the status quo by the growing political power of the working class, and the realization by the dominant groups, that social security benefits are functional to economic growth and political stability. The book covers poverty, low pay, unemployment and equality, and demonstrates how social security measures reflect and reinforce the inequalities of the economic and social system - inequalities which are accepted, legitimised and approved by society.

The Samurai Tradition (Hardcover): S.R. Turnbull The Samurai Tradition (Hardcover)
S.R. Turnbull; Introduction by Stephen Turnbull
R11,027 Discovery Miles 110 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These two volumes contain many significant writings from the second half of the 20th century on the culture and conceits of the samurai. The tradition naturally falls into two halves divided by the Tokugawa ascendancy, so the volumes are The Age of War and The Age of Peace.

Women and Social Class - International Feminist Perspectives (Paperback): Pat Mahony, Christine Zmroczek Women and Social Class - International Feminist Perspectives (Paperback)
Pat Mahony, Christine Zmroczek
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume presents debates on class within an international context. Its particular focus is on women's theorized experience of social class from a variety of feminist perspectives, contextualized in relation to the countries and regions in which they live. Using personal experience as a basis, contributors cover Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, India, Israel, Korea, New Zealand, Poland, and the USA - iluminating the differences and similarities between regions. Challenging the view that "class is dead" as well as the idea that it is a British phenomenon, the book argues that class needs to be regarded as a key concept in any attempt to understand women's lives. It also reflects on personal and political experiences of class around the world in order to understand the mechanisms through which class discrimination operates and is mediated by gender, sexuality, ethnicity and racism.

The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction - Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance (Paperback): Phil... The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction - Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance (Paperback)
Phil O'Brien
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-century British novel has explored contemporary working-class life. Studying the works of David Peace, Gordon Burn, Anthony Cartwright, Ross Raisin, Jenni Fagan, and Sunjeev Sahota, the book shows how they have mapped the shift from deindustrialisation through to stigmatization of individuals and communities who have experienced profound levels of destabilization and unemployment. O'Brien argues that these novels offer ways of understanding fundamental aspects of contemporary capitalism for the working class in modern Britain, including, class struggle, inequality, trauma, social abjection, racism, and stigmatization, exclusively looking at British working-class literature of the twenty-first century.

Class in American Society (Hardcover): Leonard Reissman Class in American Society (Hardcover)
Leonard Reissman
R1,691 Discovery Miles 16 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Deprived and The Privileged - Personality Development in English Society (Hardcover): B.M. Spinley The Deprived and The Privileged - Personality Development in English Society (Hardcover)
B.M. Spinley
R1,658 Discovery Miles 16 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Studies in Class Structure (Hardcover, illustrated edition): G.D.H. Cole Studies in Class Structure (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
G.D.H. Cole
R1,656 Discovery Miles 16 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Working Class Comm     Ils 122 - Some General Notions Raised by a Series of Studies in Northern England (Hardcover): Brian... Working Class Comm Ils 122 - Some General Notions Raised by a Series of Studies in Northern England (Hardcover)
Brian Jackson
R5,379 Discovery Miles 53 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nation&Family:Swedish  Ils 136 (Hardcover): Josephine Klein Nation&Family:Swedish Ils 136 (Hardcover)
Josephine Klein
R5,374 Discovery Miles 53 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women, Race & Class (Paperback): Angela Y. Davis Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
Angela Y. Davis 1
R303 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis examines the racism and class prejudice inherent in so much of white feminism, and in doing so brings to light new pioneering heroines, from field slaves to mill workers, who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born. 'The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied' The New York Times

Cars and Jails - Dreams of Freedom, Realties of Debt and Prison (Paperback): Julie Livingston, Andrew Ross Cars and Jails - Dreams of Freedom, Realties of Debt and Prison (Paperback)
Julie Livingston, Andrew Ross
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year." - Malcolm X (a former auto worker) Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system. American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a "freedom machine," consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility- the American debt economy and the carceral state. Cars and Jails investigates this paradox, showing how auto debt, traffic fines, over-policing, and automated surveillance systems work in tandem to entrap and criminalize poor people. The authors describe how racialization and poverty take their toll on populations with no alternative, in a country poorly served by public transport, to taking out loans for cars and exposing themselves to predatory and often racist policing. Looking skeptically at the frothy promises of the "mobility revolution," Livingston and Ross close with thought-provoking ideas for a radical overhaul of transportation.

This Happened Here - Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America (Paperback): Paul Street This Happened Here - Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America (Paperback)
Paul Street
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

--Uses a fascism frame to explain new forms of fascism today and why solutions need be bold enough to meet these new challenges. --Explains how Trump tapped reactionary tendencies embedded in the nation's founding and frontier history which rose to the fore dues to the crisis of social cohesion and bourgeois democracy imposed by late 20th and 21st century capitalism. --Traces the mainstream intellectual's remarkable and stubborn denial of the fascist nature of the Trump presidency.

Sharing Child Care in Early Parenthood (Hardcover): Malcolm Hill Sharing Child Care in Early Parenthood (Hardcover)
Malcolm Hill
R3,175 Discovery Miles 31 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1987, Malcolm Hill examines the different ways in which parents share responsibility for looking after their pre-school children with other people, whether members of their social networks, formal groups or paid carers. He also looks at the reasons parents give for choosing and changing their particular arrangements. In this way he provides insights into a range of ideas which ordinary members of the public have about children's needs; the rights and responsibilities of mothers and fathers; and how children think and feel. Marked differences are described in the social relationships of families and in notions about who is acceptable as a substitute carer for children, in what circumstances and for what purpose. Several of these contrasts are linked to attitudes and life-conditions which are affected by social class. The book identifies possible consequences for individual children's social adaptability resulting from these patterns of care. It suggests that people working with the under-fives could profit from adapting their activities and services to children's previous experiences of shared care and families' differing expectations about groups for children.

The Social Background of Delinquency (Hardcover): Pearl Jephcott The Social Background of Delinquency (Hardcover)
Pearl Jephcott; Contributions by Michael P. Carter
R3,310 Discovery Miles 33 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written in 1954 and published here for the first time, The Social Background of Delinquency deals with the social climate in which juvenile delinquency crops up time after time. It examines ‘bad’ behaviour among people who could otherwise be classed as ‘normal’ members of ordinary English society. It attempts to explore certain aspects of the sub-cultures within respectable society which appear to breed behaviour officially classed as ‘delinquent’. The research is based on a working-class town in the Midlands with a high proportion of miners and observes a pair of similar streets in five areas of the town. Each pair of streets containing one delinquency-free and one with a history of trouble. Not content with a mere survey, the research design is multifaceted and includes ethnographic observations, key informant interviews, personal history analyses and 'the playroom method' explicitly designed to ascertain children's views. The findings are reported here and represent a snapshot of life in the 1950s.

The Millionaire Next Door - The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy (Paperback, New Edition): Thomas J. Stanley,... The Millionaire Next Door - The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy (Paperback, New Edition)
Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
R345 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R69 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley.

Who Rules America? - The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the 2020s (Paperback, 8th... Who Rules America? - The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the 2020s (Paperback, 8th edition)
G. William Domhoff
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

At this crucial moment in American history, when voting rights could be expanded to include all citizens, or legislatively limited, this significantly updated edition of Who Rules America? shows precisely how the top 1% of the population, who own 43% of all financial wealth, and receive 20% of the nation's yearly income, dominate governmental decision-making. They have created a corporate community and a policy-planning network, made up of foundations think-tanks, and policy-discussion groups, to develop the policies that become law. Through a leadership group called the power elite, the corporate rich provide campaign donations and other gifts and favors to elected officials, serve on federal advisory committees, and receive appointments to key positions in government, all of which make it possible for the corporate rich and the power elite to rule the country, despite constant challenges from the inclusionary alliance and from the Democratic Party. The book explains the role of both benign and dark attempts to influence public opinion, the machinations of the climate-denial network, and how the Supreme Court came to have an ultraconservative majority, who serve as a backstop for the corporate community as well as a legitimator of restrictions on voting rights, union rights, and abortion rights, by ruling that individual states have the power to set such limits. Despite all this highly concentrated power, it will be the other 99.5%, not the top 0.5%, who will decide the fate of the United States in the 2020s on all the important issues.

The Left Behind - Reimagining Britain's Socially Excluded (Paperback): James Morrison The Left Behind - Reimagining Britain's Socially Excluded (Paperback)
James Morrison
R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse. It is the thread that knits together the 2016 Brexit referendum, the crumbling of the fabled 'Red Wall' in the North, and the pernicious culture war being waged today. But who are the Left Behind? James Morrison goes in search of the reality behind the rhetoric, offering the first comprehensive, historical analysis of the origins, uses and meanings of the term. He interrogates the popular archetype of the Left Behind - as a working class, leave-voting white male from a former industrial heartland - and situates the concept in the context of longstanding, demonising discourses aimed at communities seen as backward and 'undeserving'. Analysing national newspaper coverage and parliamentary discussions, and drawing on interviews with MPs, community leaders, charities and people with direct lived experiences of poverty and precarity, The Left Behind grapples with the real human cost of austerity for neglected post-industrial communities and other marginalised groups across the world, and the stigmatising discourse that does little to serve them.

Social Change And The Middle Classes (Paperback): Tim Butler, Mike Savage Social Change And The Middle Classes (Paperback)
Tim Butler, Mike Savage
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Develops the debate on the professional and managerial service class, and their importance as a determining force in social structure and social change.

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