ilość książek w kategorii: 3998
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White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay
ISBN: 9781595553393 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decaying values. Sexually transmitted diseases. Fatherless homes. Rampant drug use. These aren't just problems for today's inner cities. It's the plight of all America. Much has been said about Bill Cosby's incendiary remarks about urban black culture and its -dirty laundry.- But in this provocative book, Star Parker, one of today's most controversial commentators, goes even further, proving that urban plight simply reveals a decay that is gnawing its way throughout American society as a... Decaying values. Sexually transmitted diseases. Fatherless homes. Rampant drug use. These a... |
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75,98 |
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Social Stratification in Chinese Societies
ISBN: 9789004181922 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.
The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social tra...
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556,67 |
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The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents
ISBN: 9780739140598 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores working-class college students' understandings of class and social mobility through in-depth interviews rich in ethnographic detail. This book is a compelling read for students and a much-needed addition to our understanding of how class operates today, both inside and outside of the classroom.
The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores working-class college students' understandings of class and social mo...
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558,65 |
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China's Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation
ISBN: 9780815704058 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapid emergence and explosive growth of China's middle class have enormous consequences for that nation's domestic future, for the global economy, and for the whole world. In "China's Emerging Middle Class," noted scholar Cheng Li and a team of experts focus on the sociopolitical ramifications of the birth and growth of the Chinese middle class over the past two decades. The contributors, from diverse disciplines and different regions, examine the development and evolution of China's middle class from a variety of analytical perspectives. What is its educational and occupational... The rapid emergence and explosive growth of China's middle class have enormous consequences for that nation's domestic future, for the global econo... |
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170,03 |
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Rich, Free, and Miserable: The Failure of Success in America
ISBN: 9781442200937 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable--at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface. From a hospital patient reduced to a balance sheet to a parent working such long hours that he misses dinner, Brueggemann argues that market thinking has permeated every corner of our lives. In the pursuit of more and better, relationships erode, to the detriment of...
Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable--at work, at home, or both. In...
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247,75 |
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Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage in a Divided World
ISBN: 9781848130289 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.
Undoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western dominance, class elitism, and white and patriarchal privilege to the less-examined sites of heterosexual and able-bodied privilege. Pease points out that while the vast majority of people may be... For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression...
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434,65 |
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The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781848134423 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class. Using social network analysis, this title maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world's largest corporations and related political organizations.
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class. Using soci...
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434,65 |
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Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India
ISBN: 9780804770736 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or economic resources is delayed, often indefinitely. But there have been few efforts to reflect on the significance of "waiting" in the contemporary world. Timepass fills this gap by offering a captivating ethnography of the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to pervasive underemployment. It highlights the importance of waiting as a...
Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to ...
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403,20 |
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Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India
ISBN: 9780804770743 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or economic resources is delayed, often indefinitely. But there have been few efforts to reflect on the significance of "waiting" in the contemporary world. Timepass fills this gap by offering a captivating ethnography of the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to pervasive underemployment. It highlights the importance of waiting as a...
Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to ...
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95,03 |
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Cultural Consumption, Classification and Power
ISBN: 9780415614719 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When social scientists in the 1970s began to identify the positive and constructive role of cultural practices in the operation of power, Pierre Bourdieu advanced a highly influential and subsequently controversial account. Most notably in Distinction, he charted the connections between cultural taste and practice and social classification. This book seeks to evaluate, develop and transcend the ideas that Bourdieu explored in Distinction.. Taken together the papers compare and contrast different theoretical and conceptual approaches, bring empirical investigations to bear on relevant...
When social scientists in the 1970s began to identify the positive and constructive role of cultural practices in the operation of power, Pierre Bourd...
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704,38 |
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Social Class and Marxism : Defences and Challenges
ISBN: 9781859281420 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years historians and other social scientists have widely questioned the continued relevance of social class - as historical relationship, as sociological category, as philosophical concept, and in terms of its enduring political significance. The success of the British Conservative Party since 1979, combined with the weaknesses and failures of the Labour movement, have led historians and social scientists to reconsider the general nature of connections between the 'social' and the 'political' and the specific relations between the working class and socialist and Labour politics....
In recent years historians and other social scientists have widely questioned the continued relevance of social class - as historical relationship, as...
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655,81 |
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
ISBN: 9781608193417 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them-the rich and middle class as well as the poor. It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Le... |
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79,82 |
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Inklusion /Exklusion: Rhetorik, Körper, Macht
ISBN: 9783828204607 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Unterscheidung Inklusion / Exklusion dominiert wie kaum eine andere die zeit- und kulturdiagnostischen Debatten der vergangenen Jahre. Besonders systemtheoretische Ansätze, aber auch das weite Feld der sogenannten poststrukturalistischen Theorien sensibilisieren für die konstitutive Verknüpfung beider Seiten der Unterscheidung und die damit einhergehenden Dynamiken gesellschaftlicher Inklusions- und Exklusionsarrangements. Dass der systematische Einbezug einer differenztheoretischen Perspektive dabei auch die Theorien selbst vor zentrale Herausforderungen stellt, wird deutlich, wenn...
Die Unterscheidung Inklusion / Exklusion dominiert wie kaum eine andere die zeit- und kulturdiagnostischen Debatten der vergangenen Jahre. Besonders s...
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161,26 |
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Theory of the Leisure Class
ISBN: 9783867414975 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,01 |
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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: With Preface Written in 1892
ISBN: 9781108025607 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederich Engels (1820 1895) was a German businessman and political theorist renowned as one of the intellectual founders of communism. In 1842 Engels was sent to Manchester to oversee his father's textile business, and he lived in the city until 1844. This volume, first published in German in 1845, contains his classic and highly influential account of working-class life in Manchester at the height of its industrial supremacy. Engels' highly detailed descriptions of urban conditions and contrasts between the different classes in Manchester were informed from both his own observations and his...
Frederich Engels (1820 1895) was a German businessman and political theorist renowned as one of the intellectual founders of communism. In 1842 Engels...
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237,60 |
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The New Middle Classes: Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism and Environmental Concern
ISBN: 9789048182244 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With respect to the developing and threshold economies, it is no longer the poor who are the only focus of media attention. Today, the new middle classes are about to take centre stage, too. With their lifestyles and attitudes, the new middle classes are considered to be both the products as well as the promoters of globalization. They are a highly heterogeneousgroup in socio-economicterms as well as in habits 1 and preferences, including their societal role as consumers and citizens. The ?rst wave of scholarly and political attention can be traced back to the mid-nineties. The focal point...
With respect to the developing and threshold economies, it is no longer the poor who are the only focus of media attention. Today, the new middle clas...
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402,53 |
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Crass Struggle : Greed, Glitz and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World
ISBN: 9780773537712 / Angielski / Twarda / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly." Taking the reader inside today's luxury trades, R.T. Naylor visits gold mines spewing arsenic and diamond fields spreading human misery, knocks on the doors of purveyors of luxury seafood as the oceans empty, samples wares of merchants offering top-vintage wines (or at least top-vintage labels), calls on companies running trophy-hunting expeditions and dealers in...
A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorou...
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179,74 |
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The Impact of Losing Your Job: Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the Us and Germany
ISBN: 9789089648051 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it s only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made returning to the labor market even tougher. "The Impact of Losing Your Job" builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income, family life, and future prospects. Key to Martin Ehlert s analysis is a comparative look at the United States and Germany that enables him to show how different approaches to welfare state policies can...
Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it s only gotten wors...
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582,94 |
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Social Status Matters
ISBN: 9781439262672 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social status is the ultimate object of desire. Learning what it means, its antecedents, and its consequences will help the reader adjust his or her life to secure its benefits and avoid its costs.
Social status is the ultimate object of desire. Learning what it means, its antecedents, and its consequences will help the reader adjust his or her l...
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63,82 |
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Inside the College Gates: How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education
ISBN: 9780739148983 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital they attain impact social class inequalities. In this book, Jenny Stuber argues that the experiential core of college life-the social and extra-curricular worlds of higher education-operates as a setting in which social class inequalities manifest and get reproduced. As college students form friendships and get involved in activities like Greek life, study abroad, and student government, they acquire the social and cultural resources that give them access to...
To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital they attain impact ...
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446,92 |