Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis * Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation * Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed * Shows how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change
Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Inclu...
Though several editions of Locke's Letter of Toleration art available, the unique value of this volume lies in the fact that it conbines both the text of the Letter and interpretative, critical essays. Several essays are reprints of the most important articles on the Letter, but there is also new material, specially commissioned for the volume and published here for the first time. Given the importance of Locke's Letter on Toleration, this volume will be welcomed by both students and teachers of political philosophy, the history of political...
Though several editions of Locke's Letter of Toleration art available, the unique value of this volume lies in the fact that it conbines both...
'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.
This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally transforming social, political and economic structures simultaneously within homelands and places of settlement.
Transnationalism provides a much-needed single, clear and condensed text concerning...
'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.
This introductory text aims to provide students with an historical and international analysis of the development of anti-racism. Drawing on sources from around the world, the author explains the roots and describes the practice of anti-racism in Western and non-Western societies from Britain and the United States to Malaysia and Peru. Topics covered include: the historical roots of anti-racism; organizational contexts; the practice of anti-racism; and the politics of backlash.
This introductory text aims to provide students with an historical and international analysis of the development of anti-racism. Drawing on sources fr...
It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger and television programmes echo the theme with sensational docmenturies. This concise survey will help student trace the development of ideas of moral panic and to analyse how changing public perceptions are shaped and reflected through the media over time. Using examples drawn from: * club culture and raves * mugging * sex and AIDS * children, violence and the family.
It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some ...
The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place. Globalization and the global society are increasingly occupying the centre of sociological debates. Widely discussed by journalists and a key goal for many businesses, globalization has become a buzz-word in recent years. In this extensively revised and restructured new edition of Globalization , Malcolm Waters provides a user-friendly introduction to the main arguments about the process, including a chapter on the critiques of the globalization thesis that have emerged since the first edition was...
The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place. Globalization and the global society are increasingly occupying t...
Stalinism and Soviet Cinema marks an attempt to confront systematically the role and influence of Stalin and Stalinism in the history and development of Soviet cinema. It provides comprehensive coverage of the antecendents, role and consequences of Stalinism and Soviet cinema, by exploring questions such as how Stalinism emerged, what the relationship was between the political leadership, the cinema administrators, the film-makers and their films and audiences, and how Soviet cinema is coming to terms with the disintegration of both structures and mythology.
Stalinism and Soviet Cinema marks an attempt to confront systematically the role and influence of Stalin and Stalinism in the history and development ...
This introductory text aims to provide students with an historical and international analysis of the development of anti-racism. Drawing on sources from around the world, the author explains the roots and describes the practice of anti-racism in Western and non-Western societies from Britain and the United States to Malaysia and Peru. Topics covered include: the historical roots of anti-racism; organizational contexts; the practice of anti-racism; and the politics of backlash.
This introductory text aims to provide students with an historical and international analysis of the development of anti-racism. Drawing on sources fr...
The latter decades of the 20th century saw a fundamental change in the age structure of many Western societies. In these societies it is now common for a fifth to a quarter of the population to be retired, for fewer babies to be born than is required to sustain the size of the population and for life expectancy to exceed 80 years old.
The latter decades of the 20th century saw a fundamental change in the age structure of many Western societies. In these societies it is now common fo...
