ilość książek w kategorii: 3286
Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England
ISBN: 9780230219939 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that showshow meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categorization by the state. This book challenges accepted wisdom on the white working class, providing new understandings of community, place and class, arguing for the importance of migration."
A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that showshow meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categ...
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191,85 zł |
Class Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780739115480 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Class Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium explores the identity development of a group of white working-class high school students in a de-industrialized area of the Northeast. This ethnographic study explores class, racial and gender identity construction, and focuses on the ways the students' perceptions of their current and future classed, raced, and gendered selves are negotiated within the context of the school structure.
Class Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium explores the identity development of a group of white working-class hig...
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221,82 zł |
A Miscellany of Men
ISBN: 9781600965265 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The brilliant G. K. Chesterton examines a variety of human "types," including the Fool, the Miser, the Mystagogue, the Separatist, the Aristocrat, and 33 more. A fascinating study of human nature from one who had eyes to see. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.
The brilliant G. K. Chesterton examines a variety of human "types," including the Fool, the Miser, the Mystagogue, the Separatist, the Aristocrat, and...
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55,84 zł |
The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives
ISBN: 9780415455640 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including sections on class, status and power, agency and structure and life style the book develops the concept of the New Rich further in light of China's accelerated social change and the ever-increasing affluence of some of the population.
Including sections on class, status and power, agency and structure and life style the book develops the concept of the New Rich further in light of C...
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752,62 zł |
South African Case-study on Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9780796922311 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social exclusion is a dynamic, multi-dimensional phenomenon. Driven by unequal power relationships, it works to exclude groups of people in particular contexts from engaging fully in community or social life. This study explores factors that enable or constrain the implementation of policies and programmes that address social exclusion.
Social exclusion is a dynamic, multi-dimensional phenomenon. Driven by unequal power relationships, it works to exclude groups of people in particular...
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68,40 zł |
Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School
ISBN: 9789004168862 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During World War II it appeared that American workers in uniform had all that was required to defend democracy on the battlefields yet, on the domestic front, the working class, as it turned out, was ideologically inconsistent when it came to democracy. Could battles against tyranny be won abroad only to lose the war back home? This was the question the Institute of Social Research (the famous "Frankfurt School") asked in 1944 when it embarked upon an important study of the American working class. Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School...
During World War II it appeared that American workers in uniform had all that was required to defend democracy on the battlefields yet, on the domesti...
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609,07 zł |
Recasting the Social in Citizenship
ISBN: 9780802096371 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Previous notions of what constitutes "citizenship" within a country have been steadily challenged by the movement towards a globalized world. Examining the everyday habits of citizens and non-citizens, the contributors to Recasting the Social in Citizenship show how citizenship has increasingly been determined by social behaviours rather than by civil or political affiliations. Broadening the debate by interpreting the social not only as rights and privileges, but also as everyday struggles, this volume offers studies that range from environmental and security issues to... Previous notions of what constitutes "citizenship" within a country have been steadily challenged by the movement towards a globalized world. Exami... |
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185,64 zł |
The White Collar Working Class: From Structure to Politics
ISBN: 9780275930264 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Especially pertinent for political sociologists and political scientists, this text examines key social and political issues surrounding the white collar working class. The study is unique both in its coverage and elucidation of complex theories of white collar class and in incorporating structural class definition into the empirical investigation. The document examines current class situation, changes over time, and political outcomes. Specifically, it identifies a system of stratification within the working class, scrutinizes the proletarianization questions, and demonstrates the... Especially pertinent for political sociologists and political scientists, this text examines key social and political issues surrounding the white ... |
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559,31 zł |
Soviet Regional Elite Mobility After Khruschev
ISBN: 9780275931247 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clark's study covers the period in Soviet political history from the fall of Khrushchev in late 1964 through the spring of 1987 and examines the forces affecting regional elite mobility throughout the Soviet Union during these years.
Clark's study covers the period in Soviet political history from the fall of Khrushchev in late 1964 through the spring of 1987 and examines the force...
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559,31 zł |
Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies
ISBN: 9780313213106 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as the slavery system, the growth of the cotton industry, and the growing sectional self-consciousness of the South. The authors' local, microcosmic approaches permit examination of subjects such as local justice, economic failure, slave marriages, and slave insurrection with an in-depth attention rarely possible in general works.
Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as the slavery system, the growth of the cotton indus... |
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559,31 zł |
Proletarians and Protest: The Roots of Class Formation in an Industrializing World
ISBN: 9780313232176 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of essays a number of distinguished scholars examine the proletarianization process and its relation to social protest and class formation. The authors consider how the social origins of the industrial work force and the migration patterns that brought workers to industrial areas shaped the workers' developing identity and led them to participate in mass protests. The essays provide an overview of proletarianization in industrializing regions and in several different countries. Although the authors of these articles employ a variety of disciplines--anthropology, history,... In this collection of essays a number of distinguished scholars examine the proletarianization process and its relation to social protest and class... |
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559,31 zł |
Class in China: Stratification in a Classless Society
ISBN: 9780313254987 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. T]he book is splendid. Wortzel combines his expertise in Sinology with his meticulous attention to epistemology and methodology in studying the class structure and stratification in Maoist China, accomplishing the rare feat of freeing himself from ideological bias and parochial ethnic subjectivity. . . . It is indeed refreshing to read Wortzel's realistic book. "Journal of Third World Studies" Although the hierarchy of class is said to have been replaced with distinctions between the friends and enemies of Communism, Larry Wortzel argues that the Chinese Communist Party has in... T]he book is splendid. Wortzel combines his expertise in Sinology with his meticulous attention to epistemology and methodology in studying the cl... |
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326,47 zł |
New Perspectives on Social Class and Socioeconomic Development in the Periphery
ISBN: 9780313256882 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative new volume focuses on the economic features that make Third World social formations distinctive and on non-property characteristics such as religion, ethnicity, and culture, that are central to the survival of these societies. Specifically, the authors look at the significance and revolutionary potential of peasant majorities, who take limited advantage of capitalist modes of production and often manage to maintain their cultural and economic identity and a degree of independence in the process. Following the editors' introduction, which explains the conceptual framework... This provocative new volume focuses on the economic features that make Third World social formations distinctive and on non-property characteristic... |
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559,31 zł |
The Mythmakers: Intellectuals and the Intelligentsia in Perspective
ISBN: 9780313258367 / Angielski / Twarda / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique collection brings together various scholars of sociology and political science to explore the status and activities of the intellectuals and the intelligentsia past, present and future. The intellectuals and intelligentsia perform a social role as well as a mental function and are products of their age and country. Their role in various parts of the globe and in different historical periods is compared and contrasted. Long-range historical perspective is provided by an essay on the sociology of intellectual creativity in the axial period of human history. In addition, the role... This unique collection brings together various scholars of sociology and political science to explore the status and activities of the intellectual... |
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646,63 zł |
Intellectuals and Their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780754675402 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics? What is the role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties? What challenges face female intellectuals and those speaking from an ethnic, national or class position? This exciting collection responds to these questions by offering a broad-ranging account of the changing role of intellectuals in public life. The volume opens with provocative essays on the idea and role of the public intellectual from Alexander, Evans and Zulaika. Chapters from Rabinbach on intellectuals' responses to totalitarianism, Outhwaite...
How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics? What is the role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties? What...
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702,44 zł |
Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting and Strategies
ISBN: 9780415474757 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990's, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away. Social Class in Contemporary Japan is the first single volume that traces the dynamics of social structure, institutional socialization and class culture through this turbulent period, all the way into the contemporary neoliberal moment. In an innovative multi-disciplinary approach... Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples ... |
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727,52 zł |
Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
ISBN: 9780804760775 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups--the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated elite--coalesced to form a new dominant class. After dispossessing the country's propertied classes, Mao and the Communist Party took radical measures to eliminate class distinctions based on education, aggravating antagonisms between the new political and old cultural elites. Ultimately,...
Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account...
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582,03 zł |
Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
ISBN: 9780804760782 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Rise of the Red Engineers" explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groupsthe poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated elitecoalesced to form a new dominant class. After dispossessing the country's propertied classes, Mao and the Communist Party took radical measures to eliminate class distinctions based on education, aggravating antagonisms between the new political and old cultural elites. Ultimately, however,...
"Rise of the Red Engineers" explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, aut...
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133,06 zł |
The New Middle Classes: Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism and Environmental Concern
ISBN: 9781402099373 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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383,73 zł |
Class and Personality in Society
ISBN: 9780202362595 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume graphically demonstrates how differences in social class affect personality. It does so by presenting research in class character covering a broad range of phenomena in the area shared by psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and anthropology. Concerned with key issues of substance and method in this area, the essays in Class and Personality in Society provide firsthand experience in the divergent ways in which specialists view and explore the relationship between personality and social status. The material offers a picture of how, out of controversy and confusion, scholars and...
This volume graphically demonstrates how differences in social class affect personality. It does so by presenting research in class character covering...
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220,72 zł |