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The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor - The Metropolitan Districts Volume 1 (Paperback): Henry Mayhew The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor - The Metropolitan Districts Volume 1 (Paperback)
Henry Mayhew; Edited by Peter Razzell
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor. First published in 1981, this series of six volumes constitutes Henry Mayhew's complete Morning Chronicle survey, in the sequence in which it was originally written in 1849 and 1850. It addresses a wealth of topics from cholera in the Jacob's Island area and to the food markets of London. The publication of this complete survey represented the first time in which the whole was Mayhew's pioneering work was available in one place. The set is introduced by Dr Peter Razzell, who was co-editor of the national Morning Chronicle survey. This first volume contains letters from October to November 1849. This series will be of interest to those studying the history of social welfare, poverty and urbanisation.

Parenting, Education, and Social Mobility in Rural China - Cultivating dragons and phoenixes (Paperback): Peggy A. Kong Parenting, Education, and Social Mobility in Rural China - Cultivating dragons and phoenixes (Paperback)
Peggy A. Kong
R1,460 Discovery Miles 14 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Like many countries around the world, China has been implementing policies aimed at improving parent-school relationships. However, unlike many developed countries, the historical context of family-school relationships has been limited and parents typically do not participate in the school context. Until now, there has been little research conducted in rural China on parental involvement in their children's education. This book investigates the nature of parental involvement in primary children's education in rural China by using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. It outlines the layered strategies of how rural parents are involved in their children's schooling, showing that rural parents strongly desire educational success for their children and view education as a means to their children gaining social mobility. It demonstrates that few rural parents engage in visible forms of parental involvement in their children's schools, such as attending parent-teacher meetings. Rather, they are more likely to engage strategies to support their children's education which are largely invisible to schools. It adds to the growing body of parental involvement research that suggests that culture, location, and socio-economic status influence different forms of parental involvement, and highlights nuances in invisible forms of parental involvement. Providing insights into how poor rural parents envision their role with their children, schools, and the larger society, and how these relationships can affect the social mobility of students and families, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian education, comparative and international education, and Chinese society.

Class and the Making of American Literature - Created Unequal (Paperback): Andrew Lawson Class and the Making of American Literature - Created Unequal (Paperback)
Andrew Lawson
R1,483 Discovery Miles 14 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American society operates through inequality and modes of social control, focusing primarily on issues of status group identities involving race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. The essays in this volume focus on both the historically changing experience of class and its continuing hold on American life. The collection visits popular as well as canonical literature, recognizing that class is constructed in and mediated by the affective and the sensational. It analyzes class division, class difference, and class identity in American culture, enabling readers to grasp why class matters, as well as the economic, social, and political matter of class. Redefining the field of American literary cultural studies and asking it to rethink its preoccupation with race and gender as primary determinants of identity, contributors explore the disciplining of the laboring body and of the emotions, the political role of the novel in contesting the limits of class power and authority, and the role of the modern consumer culture in both blurring and sharpening class divisions.

Semi-Detached London - Suburban Development, Life and Transport, 1900-39 (Hardcover): Alan A. Jackson Semi-Detached London - Suburban Development, Life and Transport, 1900-39 (Hardcover)
Alan A. Jackson
R3,503 Discovery Miles 35 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1973, Semi-Detached London looks at the great suburban expansion of London between the two world wars. The book covers all aspects of urban history, presenting an authoritative and balanced account of the Great Suburban Age, and the final uninhibited forty years before the Green Belt and Development Plan. The roles of the speculative builder, the estate developer and the local authorities receive careful attention and the author's special knowledge of London's transport systems ensures that the leading part they played is fully developed. Students of social, urban and transport history will find this book a valuable source of reference.

Social Mobility for the 21st Century - Everyone a Winner? (Hardcover): Steph Lawler, Geoff Payne Social Mobility for the 21st Century - Everyone a Winner? (Hardcover)
Steph Lawler, Geoff Payne
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is reproduced. Contributions include (but are not limited to) family relationships, students' encounters with higher education, narratives of work careers, and 'mobility identities'. The book intends to challenge both the framework of the more traditional approach, and the politicisation of mobility which casts 'mobility' as a possession, a commodity or a character trait, and threatens to castigate the 'non-mobile' as carrying a personal responsibility for their situation. This book presents critical analyses of routes into social mobility, the experience of social mobility, and the political and social implications of social mobility's 'panacea' status. Drawing on the work of established scholars and more recent entrants, the chapters offer a fresh look at social mobility, opening up the topic to a wider readership among the profession and beyond, and stimulating further debate. This book will appeal to higher level students and scholars of sociology alike, as well as having a broad cross-disciplinary appeal.

Schools in an Urban Community - A Study of Carbrook 1870-1965 (Hardcover): Cheryl Parsons Schools in an Urban Community - A Study of Carbrook 1870-1965 (Hardcover)
Cheryl Parsons
R3,029 Discovery Miles 30 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1978, Schools in an Urban Community is an ethnography of the Carbrook and Hill Top area of the Attercliffe district of Sheffield before it was cleared for redevelopment. The book provides an in depth look at the community and schools of the area and provides a valued contribution to the field of social history. Using interviews with former pupils, log books and questionnaires from the local community, the book provides a valuable resource for educationists and urban historians, as well as providing a detailed examination of the relations between school and community.

Fulfillment - America in the Shadow of Amazon (Paperback): Alec Macgillis Fulfillment - America in the Shadow of Amazon (Paperback)
Alec Macgillis
R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
South Wales and the Rising of 1839 - Class Struggle as Armed Struggle (Paperback): Ivor Wilks South Wales and the Rising of 1839 - Class Struggle as Armed Struggle (Paperback)
Ivor Wilks
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1984, this book provides the first full study of the carefully planned rising of south Wales miners and ironworkers in 1839 and of its collapse at the confrontation with soldiers of the 45th regiment of Newport. It examines not only the rising itself, but the factors that made it, if not inevitable, then likely. It argues that while the workers' movement was an immediate response to the grim circumstances of the workplace, it was also deeply rooted in the centuries-old Welsh experience of repression. This title will be of particular interest to students of Victorian political and social history and well as the history of Wales.

The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914 (Paperback): Geoffrey Crossick The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914 (Paperback)
Geoffrey Crossick
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1977. This book records the emergence of a lower middle class in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Victorian society had always contained a marginal middle class of shopkeepers and small businessmen, but in the closing decades of the nineteenth century the growth of white-collar salaried occupations created a new and distinctive force in the social structure. These essays look at the place of the lower middle class within British society and examine its ideals and values. Some essays concentrate on occupational groups - clerks and shopkeepers - while others focus on aspects of lower middle class life - religion, housing and jingoism. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain (Paperback): Dennis Mills Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain (Paperback)
Dennis Mills
R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1980, this book looks at the social structure of 18th and 19th century rural Britain. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of landlord and peasant in the rural village and examines the open-closed model of English rural social structure in great depth. In doing so, it explores the ways in which the estate system influenced urban development and how the peasant system facilitated the industrialisation of many villages. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian and social history, industrialisation and urbanisation.

Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback): R Neale Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
R Neale
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1972, this collection of essays by R. S. Neale focuses on authority, and the responses and challenges to it made by men and women throughout the nineteenth century. Employing a more sociologically-minded approach to history and specifically using a 'five-class' model, the book explores features of class and ideology in Britain and its Empire. It includes a range of case studies such as the Bath radicals, the members of executive councils in the Australian colonies, and the social strata in the women's movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and sociology.

The Victorian Working Class - Selections from Letters to the Morning Chronicle (Paperback): R.W. Wainwright, P. Razzell The Victorian Working Class - Selections from Letters to the Morning Chronicle (Paperback)
R.W. Wainwright, P. Razzell
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1849, the Morning Chronicle, a leading Victorian newspaper, embarked on a social investigation of working class life in England and Wales. Set in the immediate context of concern over Chartism and the cholera epidemic, its intention was to provide a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material and physical condition of the industrial poor. First published in 1973, this book reflects through the survey the highly complex nature of nineteenth-century social structure throughout England and South Wales, covering descriptions of contrasting political orientations, work and leisure patterns, sex and family, education and religion. In doing so, it provides a classic introduction to the social structures of the working class during the nineteenth century. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and sociology.

Conflict and Compromise - Class Formation in English Society 1830-1914 (Paperback): Dennis Smith Conflict and Compromise - Class Formation in English Society 1830-1914 (Paperback)
Dennis Smith
R1,167 Discovery Miles 11 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban industrial order was developing in complex interdependence with a declining rural agrarian order. The book follows the divergent paths of two cities - Birmingham and Sheffield - in their social development. These paths reflect the complex process of conflict and compromise as the 'old' order was gradually replaced by the 'new'. It studies in detail many aspects of social life that were affected by these changes such as education, public administration, political structures, public administration, religion, the professions, popular culture and family. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and sociology.

Emigrant Gentlewomen - Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914 (Paperback): A. James Hammerton Emigrant Gentlewomen - Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914 (Paperback)
A. James Hammerton
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women's responses to the experience of economic and social decline and to insufficient female employment opportunities. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Dalit Politics in Contemporary India (Paperback): Sambaiah Gundimeda Dalit Politics in Contemporary India (Paperback)
Sambaiah Gundimeda
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is a ground-breaking intervention on Dalit politics in India. Challenging received ideas, it uses a comparative framework to understand Dalit mobilisations for political power, social equality and justice. The monograph traces the emergence of Dalit consciousness and its different strands in north and south India - from colonial to contemporary times - and interrogates key notions and events. These include: the debate regarding core themes such as the Hindu-Muslim cleavage in the north and caste in the south; the extent to which Dalits and other backward castes (OBC) base their anti-Brahminism on similar ideologies; and why Dalits in Uttar Pradesh (north India) succeeded in gaining power while they did not do so in the region of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh (south India), where Dalit consciousness is more evolved. Drawing on archival material, fieldwork and case studies, this volume puts forward an insightful and incisive analysis. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of Dalit studies and social exclusion, Indian politics and sociology.

The Politics of Caste in West Bengal (Paperback): Uday Chandra, Geir Heierstad, Kenneth Bo Nielsen The Politics of Caste in West Bengal (Paperback)
Uday Chandra, Geir Heierstad, Kenneth Bo Nielsen
R1,480 Discovery Miles 14 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society in colonial and postcolonial West Bengal in India. Drawing on cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it explains why caste continues to be neglected in the politics of and scholarship on West Bengal, and how caste relations have permeated the politics of the region until today. The essays presented here dispel the myth that caste does not matter in Bengali society and politics, and make possible meaningful comparisons and contrasts with other regions in South Asia.

Between Two Worlds - Black Students in an Urban Community College (Hardcover): Lois Weis Between Two Worlds - Black Students in an Urban Community College (Hardcover)
Lois Weis
R3,481 R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Save R1,027 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1985, this book explores the 'lived culture' of urban black students in a community college located in a large northeastern city in the United States. The author immersed herself in the institution she was studying for a full academic year, exploring both the direct experiences of education, and the way these experiences were worked over and through the praxis of cultural discourse. She examines in detail the messages of the school, including the 'hidden curriculum' and faculty perspectives, as well as the way these messages are transformed at a cultural level. The resulting work provides a major contribution to a number of debates on education and cultural and economic reproduction, as well as a leap forward in our understanding of the role schooling plays in the re-creation of race and class antagonisms. This work will be of great interest to anyone working with minorities, particularly in the context of education.

Caste in Contemporary India (Paperback, 2nd edition): Surinder S Jodhka Caste in Contemporary India (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Surinder S Jodhka
R1,273 Discovery Miles 12 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Caste is a contested terrain in India's society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. It examines questions of untouchability, citizenship, social mobility, democratic politics, corporate hiring and Dalit activism. Using rich empirical evidence from the field across Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and other parts of north India, this volume presents the reasons for the persistence of caste in India from a new perspective. The book offers an original theoretical framework for comparative understandings of the entrenched social differences, discrimination, inequalities, stratification, and the modes and patterns of their reproduction. This second edition, with a new Introduction, delves into why caste continues to matter and how caste-based divisions often tend to overlap with the emergent disparities of the new economy. A delicate balance of lived experience and hard facts, this persuasive work will serve as essential reading for students and teachers of sociology and social anthropology, social exclusion and discrimination studies, political science, development studies and public policy.

China's Housing Middle Class - Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities (Hardcover): Beibei Tang China's Housing Middle Class - Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities (Hardcover)
Beibei Tang
R4,488 Discovery Miles 44 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Home ownership plays a significant role in locating the middle class in most western societies, associated with market, consumerism, democracy and "people like us", the significant features of the middle class for any society. In China, private home ownership was not the norm from 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party took power, until the 1990s. In the past three decades, however, there has been a fast growing housing consumption and private homeowners have become the most significantly changing aspect of Chinese urban life. In particular, the rise of gated communities has become a predominant feature of the urban landscape. Similar to their western counterparts, the gated communities in China exemplify "high status" symbols with enclosed and restricted residential areas, exclusive community parks and recreational facilities, and professional management and security services. But different from western societies where gated communities usually represent luxurious lifestyles only limited to a small group of people, in urban China gated communities have become one major form of supply in the housing market and one of the most popular and desirable choices for homebuyers. Private home ownership and residency in gated communities, altogether characterize the most significant aspect of comfort living and distinct lifestyles of China's new middle classes who have successfully got ahead in the socialist market economy. This book examines the formation of "China's housing middle class". It develops a theoretical argument about, and provides empirical evidence of the heterogeneity of China's new middle class, which underlines the relations between the state, market and life chances under a socialist market economy. As such it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Chinese society, sociology and politics.

Caste in Contemporary India (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Surinder S Jodhka Caste in Contemporary India (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Surinder S Jodhka
R4,201 Discovery Miles 42 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Caste is a contested terrain in India's society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. It examines questions of untouchability, citizenship, social mobility, democratic politics, corporate hiring and Dalit activism. Using rich empirical evidence from the field across Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and other parts of north India, this volume presents the reasons for the persistence of caste in India from a new perspective. The book offers an original theoretical framework for comparative understandings of the entrenched social differences, discrimination, inequalities, stratification, and the modes and patterns of their reproduction. This second edition, with a new Introduction, delves into why caste continues to matter and how caste-based divisions often tend to overlap with the emergent disparities of the new economy. A delicate balance of lived experience and hard facts, this persuasive work will serve as essential reading for students and teachers of sociology and social anthropology, social exclusion and discrimination studies, political science, development studies and public policy.

The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914 - Enterprise, Family and Independence (Paperback): Geoffrey Crossick, Heinz-Gerhard... The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914 - Enterprise, Family and Independence (Paperback)
Geoffrey Crossick, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1995. Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt provide a major overview of the social, economic, cultural and political development of the petite bourgeoisie in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. Through comparative analysis the authors examine issues such as the centrality of small enterprise to industrial change, the importance of family and locality to the petit-bourgeois world, the search for stability and status, and the associated political move to the right. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Engagement and Disengagement - Class, Authority, Politics, and Intellectuals (Paperback): Howard G. Schneiderman Engagement and Disengagement - Class, Authority, Politics, and Intellectuals (Paperback)
Howard G. Schneiderman
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Part dialogue, part debate between Howard Schneiderman and a small number of social theorists, Engagement and Disengagement represents the culmination of a life's work in social theory. On the one hand, it is about cohesive social, cultural, and intellectual forces, such as authority, community, status, and the sacred, that tie us together, and on the other hand, about forces such as alienation, politics, and economic warfare that pull us apart. With a blend of humanism and social science, Engagement and Disengagement highlight this two-culture solution to understanding social and cultural history.

Media and Class - TV, Film, and Digital Culture (Hardcover): June Deery, Andrea Press Media and Class - TV, Film, and Digital Culture (Hardcover)
June Deery, Andrea Press
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although the idea of class is again becoming politically and culturally charged, the relationship between media and class remains understudied. This diverse collection draws together prominent and emerging media scholars to offer readers a much-needed orientation within the wider categories of media, class, and politics in Britain, America, and beyond. Case studies address media representations and media participation in a variety of platforms, with attention to contemporary culture: from celetoids to selfies, Downton Abbey to Duck Dynasty, and royals to reality TV. These scholarly but accessible accounts draw on both theory and empirical research to demonstrate how different media navigate and negotiate, caricature and essentialize, or contain and regulate class.

Against Meritocracy - Culture, power and myths of mobility (Hardcover): Jo Littler Against Meritocracy - Culture, power and myths of mobility (Hardcover)
Jo Littler
R3,904 Discovery Miles 39 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for 'talent' to combine with 'effort' in order to 'rise to the top'. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture - and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division. Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy's meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part II uses a series of case studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular 'parables of progress', from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs, from social media controversies to the rise of the 'mumpreneur'. Paying special attention to the role of gender, 'race' and class, this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of meritocracy in contemporary culture and society.

Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles (Hardcover): Steven Threadgold Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles (Hardcover)
Steven Threadgold
R3,922 Discovery Miles 39 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit to think about the ways young people are pushed and pulled by the normative demands directed at them from an early age, whilst they reflexively understand that allegedly available incentives for making the 'right' choices and working hard - financial and familial security, social status and job satisfaction - are a declining prospect. In Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles, the figures of those classed as 'hipsters' and 'bogans' are used to analyse how representation works to form a symbolic and moral economy that produces and polices fuzzy class boundaries. Further to this, the practices of young people around DIY cultures are analysed to illustrate struggles to create a satisfying and meaningful existence while negotiating between study, work and creative passions. By thinking through different modalities of struggles, which revolve around meaning making and identity, creativity and authenticity, Threadgold brings Bourdieu's sociological practice together with theories of affect, emotion, morals and values to broaden our understanding of how young people make choices, adapt, strategise, succeed, fail and make do. Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, of fields including: Youth Studies, Class and Inequality, Work and Careers, Subcultures, Media and Creative Industries, Social Theory and Bourdieusian Theory.

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