Sonia Blandford, CEO of award-winning charity Achievement for All, writes brilliantly and honestly about the facing up to the realities of the white working class and how to address social mobility from the inside. No-one in the UK is better placed than Sonia to write about the struggles of white working class pupils in our schools. She grew up on ......
An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey
Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey is a practical resource for helping students connect sociological issues with real-world data in the context of their first undergraduate sociology courses. It: introduces readers to the GSS, one of the most widely analyzed surveys in the U.S. examines a range of GSS questions related to social inequalities demonstrates basic techniques for analyzing this data online. No special software is required - the exercises can be completed using the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) website at the University of California-Berkeley which is easy to navigate and master. Students will come away with a better understanding of social science research, and will be better positioned to ask and answer the sociological questions that most interest them.
Powerful Schools seeks to release the creative vision within all educators, and show how schools can lead the way in establishing structures and practices that will support young people to become productive members of a global society. If educators are liberated to recognise that the vast potential of schools need not be constrained by ......
Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks
Tells the compelling stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two Boston-area neighborhoods. This book argues that these immigrant women parlay social ties that provide support and leverage to develop networks and achieve social positioning to get ahead.
Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks
Features stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two Boston-area neighborhoods. In this book, the author argues that these immigrant women parlay social ties that provide support and leverage to develop networks and achieve social positioning to get ahead.
Social Movements and Cultural Dynamics in Advanced Societies
Are contemporary societies organized by class? In recent years the apparent fragmentation of established class structures and the emergence of new social movements - in particular the women's movement and environmentalism - have altered the traditional expressions of class in society. At the same time, these changes have posed fundamental questions for the concept of class in sociology and political science. In this reassessment, Klaus Eder offers a perspective on the status of class in modernity. Drawing on Bourdieu, Touraine and Habermas, he outlines a cultural conception of class as the basis for understanding contemporary societies. His model re-evaluates the role of the middle classes, traditionally the crux of class analysis, and links class to social theories of power and cultural capital. The result is a cultural theory of class which incorporates the changing forms of collective action and the new social movements of contemporary societies. This text should be of interest to a wide readership within sociology and political science.
"This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive ......
