The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration, 1870-1940 offers the first systematic, large-scale analysis of the upward social mobility and integration of Jewish members of the Dutch economic, political, and cult...Loe edasi...
Benjamin Cornwell, Cristobal Young, Barum Park, Nan Feng
Sari: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009483254)
Are social ties so abundant that they can substitute for wealth? This book shows that they arent. Shedding light on network processes that separate the rich from the poor, we reveal how the most prized to the most deceptively trivial social connec...Loe edasi...
Are social ties so abundant that they can substitute for wealth? This book shows that they arent. Shedding light on network processes that separate the rich from the poor, we reveal how the most prized to the most deceptively trivial social connec...Loe edasi...
Sari: Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009659963)
This Element introduces a methodological framework that positions itself between site-specific archaeological investigations and broader regional approaches characteristic of historical and landscape archaeology. This concept enables the delineation...Loe edasi...
This Element introduces a methodological framework that positions itself between site-specific archaeological investigations and broader regional approaches characteristic of historical and landscape archaeology. This concept enables the delineation...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241742181)
Capitalism seems invincible and inevitable. It is neither. Clara Mattei illustrates brilliantly its fragility and restores hope that everything could be different Yanis Varoufakis Economics is sold as pure and apolitical: scientific, ne...Loe edasi...
Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained throug...Loe edasi...
Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility brings ethnographic nuance to the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and...Loe edasi...
Miss is the inspiring true story of one teacher’s journey to transform the lives of her inner city students. But when she breaks the rules and risks losing her job, can she find the courage to keep fighting for the change she believes in an...Loe edasi...
This book is for policymakers, social scientists, and readers interested in policies that can transform household trajectories. It reveals how homeownership programs drive economic growth, empower citizens, and influence local politics. It also offer...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009637008)
Which policies can help households improve their economic, social and political status? Building Social Mobility is an in-depth exploration of how policies to subsidize homeownership in low- and middle-income countries shape beneficiaries decision-m...Loe edasi...
Are you a social climber? Chances are high, as there are many people who cross class boundaries. They embark on a long journey filled with adventures and obstacles, confusion and discoveries. This brings them into a new world with different social c...Loe edasi...
First published in English in 1981, Historical Research on Social Mobility treats a central area of social history: the history of social mobility. It provides a unique guide to the wide range of research in this area that is carried out by...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108842846)
Income inequality in America has been on the rise for decades, but policy and legal thought has yet to catch up. Both parties in the United States have been hesitant to intervene in the market to address this problem, while the income tax system has...Loe edasi...
Income inequality has been rising for decades, yet there is a longstanding bias in legal thought-especially among law and economics scholars-against using legal rules to respond to this problem. This book shows why we should use legal rules, and not...Loe edasi...
Presents Judith Butlers interest in the plurality of bodily lives and her search for a social transformation conducive to a more livable world This book is the only monograph-length study of the work of Judith Butler to focus on the entir...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009443449)
Everyone is exposed to manipulation daily, and everyone manipulates too. The impact of manipulations in personal, social, and political life is enormous. But which influences count as manipulations, and how should they be assessed morally? This book...Loe edasi...
This book critically examines intra-Schengen border control and migration dynamics in Europe, providing a comprehensive analysis of how various actors, including border officials and state apparatuses, interact in managing mobility and enforcing c...Loe edasi...
This book critically examines intra-Schengen border control and migration dynamics in Europe, providing a comprehensive analysis of how various actors, including border officials and state apparatuses, interact in managing mobility and enforcing c...Loe edasi...
*NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay Rory Stewart Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad often in the same sentence Sunday Times The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass I...Loe edasi...
The present volume describes the existing nature, forms, and dimensions of economic, political and social inequalities at a micro rural level and compares them with the Indian macrocosm of increasing inequality, with a view to reveal uneven facets o...Loe edasi...
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope“Powerful . . . McCaulley uses examples of his...Loe edasi...
Looking at the Finnish-Russian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand the long-term effects of migration--a continuing process spanning several generations--The Hidden Minority takes a multi-temporal pers...Loe edasi...
Israelis with a Russian accent have been part of Israels social, cultural and economic landscape for over 20 years. They are found in all walks of life: as controversial politicians, senior physicians and scientists, kibbutz members and religiou...Loe edasi...
For the majority of us the opportunity to travel has never been greater, yet differences in mobility highlight inequalities that have wider social implications. Exploring how and why attitudes towards movement have evolved across generations, the cas...Loe edasi...
Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu. This book shows how Bourdieus ideas can be used to go beyon...Loe edasi...
In Langston Hughes Mother to Son, (1922), written at a time of dramatic disruption in the American economy and continued tyranny in the lives of Black people, urban and rural, the Mother pleads with the child not to give up. She tells the child th...Loe edasi...
The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration, 1870-1940 offers the first systematic, large-scale analysis of the upward social mobility and integration of Jewish members of the Dutch economic, political, and cult...Loe edasi...
What is the true cost of Britain’s housing emergency?This is the shocking story of Britain’s appalling housing crisis as it has never been told before – through the people stuck in its grip, living in barely believable and totally unliveabl...Loe edasi...
Written by an academic and practitioner team, this unique text combines rigorous research with practical advice to examine coaching and mentoring in youth work, highlighting the purpose of these interventions in supporting the transition of young pe...Loe edasi...
Ivan Illich writes against the moral authority of professions, against economic development as an unquestioned good, against schooling as the privileged path to learning, against the subjugation of desire to needs, and against ever greater...Loe edasi...
Benjamin Cornwell, Cristobal Young, Barum Park, Nan Feng
Sari: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009483254)
Are social ties so abundant that they can substitute for wealth? This book shows that they arent. Shedding light on network processes that separate the rich from the poor, we reveal how the most prized to the most deceptively trivial social connec...Loe edasi...
Are social ties so abundant that they can substitute for wealth? This book shows that they arent. Shedding light on network processes that separate the rich from the poor, we reveal how the most prized to the most deceptively trivial social connec...Loe edasi...
Sari: Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009659963)
This Element introduces a methodological framework that positions itself between site-specific archaeological investigations and broader regional approaches characteristic of historical and landscape archaeology. This concept enables the delineation...Loe edasi...
This Element introduces a methodological framework that positions itself between site-specific archaeological investigations and broader regional approaches characteristic of historical and landscape archaeology. This concept enables the delineation...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081717)
A biography of an influential radical conservative who sought to unite the far right Willis Carto (1926-2015) was arguably the most important radical conservative in postwar America. Best known as the founder of the infamous Liberty Lobby...Loe edasi...
Ivan Illich writes against the moral authority of professions, against economic development as an unquestioned good, against schooling as the privileged path to learning, against the subjugation of desire to needs, and against ever greater energy us...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781636678405)
Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, the class and social stratification structure in China has undergone profound changes. To resolve issues such as social dynamism, social conflicts, common prosperity, social identity, and social fragm...Loe edasi...
Education is considered central to social mobility and, following a drive to raise learners’ aspirations, an ‘aspiration industry’ has emerged. However, the desire to leave school early should not be regarded as evidence of students lacking...Loe edasi...
A deeply researched look at how UK poverty levels skyrocketed, and how the crisis can be fixed.Almost a third of children in Britain today live in poverty. Levels of deprivation in the UK are now higher than at any point in recent history....Loe edasi...
Being Human presents the concept of an ideas-informed society, in which new thinking and innovation drive decision-making and citizens are encouraged to engage in and actively participate in this process. Ideas always have...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035349975)
This perceptive book addresses the changing dynamics of inequality in higher education in the Global South. Focusing on the lived experiences of university students, expert contributors explore how inequality is defined and navigated in higher educat...Loe edasi...
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: United Nations, ISBN-13: 9789211543698)
Social protection systems in the Arab region tackle life cycle risks and economic shocks that fuel deep inequalities. The report analyzes evolving responses for vulnerable groupsinformal workers, women, youth, the elderly, disabled persons and migra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241742181)
Capitalism seems invincible and inevitable. It is neither. Clara Mattei illustrates brilliantly its fragility and restores hope that everything could be different Yanis Varoufakis Economics is sold as pure and apolitical: scientific, ne...Loe edasi...
Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained throug...Loe edasi...
Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility brings ethnographic nuance to the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and...Loe edasi...
Miss is the inspiring true story of one teacher’s journey to transform the lives of her inner city students. But when she breaks the rules and risks losing her job, can she find the courage to keep fighting for the change she believes in an...Loe edasi...
Der Bildungserfolg ist nach wie vor stark mit dem sozialen Hintergrund verbunden. Besorgnis darüber bleibt aus, was sich durch die meritokratische Überzeugung erklären lässt, dass Erfolg von individueller Anstrengung und Talent abhängt. Die Autorin...Loe edasi...
Demagogues, Populism and Misinformation examines two crucial factors that influence ideas engagement: the allure of dark ideas and the necessary preconditions for effective engagement with ideas, such as tolerance, intellectual humility...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816557165)
Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of thousands of Quechua-speaking farmers from the rural Andes have migrated to the territory o...Loe edasi...
This book is for policymakers, social scientists, and readers interested in policies that can transform household trajectories. It reveals how homeownership programs drive economic growth, empower citizens, and influence local politics. It also offer...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009637008)
Which policies can help households improve their economic, social and political status? Building Social Mobility is an in-depth exploration of how policies to subsidize homeownership in low- and middle-income countries shape beneficiaries decision-m...Loe edasi...
Are you a social climber? Chances are high, as there are many people who cross class boundaries. They embark on a long journey filled with adventures and obstacles, confusion and discoveries. This brings them into a new world with different social c...Loe edasi...
First published in English in 1981, Historical Research on Social Mobility treats a central area of social history: the history of social mobility. It provides a unique guide to the wide range of research in this area that is carried out by...Loe edasi...
While much research has explored how perceptions of income inequality influence political outcomessuch as political participation, behaviour, and support for democracyless attention has been given to how a countrys economic and political conditions...Loe edasi...
Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational attainment and low aspiration as defining attributes of working-class boys in education. It has often characterised them as miso...Loe edasi...
Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational attainment and low aspiration as defining attributes of working-class boys in education. It has often characterised them as miso...Loe edasi...
Using the Indian Information Technology (IT) industry as the empirical context, Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work develops a comprehensive conceptual and analytical framework for studying contemporary employment relations governed by tech...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108842846)
Income inequality in America has been on the rise for decades, but policy and legal thought has yet to catch up. Both parties in the United States have been hesitant to intervene in the market to address this problem, while the income tax system has...Loe edasi...
Income inequality has been rising for decades, yet there is a longstanding bias in legal thought-especially among law and economics scholars-against using legal rules to respond to this problem. This book shows why we should use legal rules, and not...Loe edasi...
Presents Judith Butlers interest in the plurality of bodily lives and her search for a social transformation conducive to a more livable world This book is the only monograph-length study of the work of Judith Butler to focus on the entir...Loe edasi...
Geographic divisions that exist internally within countries – ‘the borders within’ – can be seen in how much people earn and levels of economic growth, as well as in health and educational outcomes. With fresh thinking, this book explores w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529238457)
The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign has been critiqued for depoliticising global and gender inequalities, portraying girls from the Global South as responsible for lifting entire communities out of poverty and encouraging girls in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847928566)
For generations our education system has been built on the twin pillars of literacy and numeracy. But what if a third--and equally vital--pillar has been ignored? Enter oracy: communicating effectively, articulating ideas and engaging with others th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035324972)
In light of the ongoing struggle faced by migrants and refugees trying to access healthcare, this thought-provoking book tackles key issues at the intersection of mobility and health. It critically engages with the bureaucratic, economic and cultural...Loe edasi...
Education is supposed to level the playing field, and yet for many working-class children inequalities in the classroom in fact deepen the divide. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are almost four times more likely to be excluded from school...Loe edasi...
Every year, millions of people are forced to leave their homes due to conflict, violence, human rights violations, discrimination, disasters, and the impact of climate change. As a result of this, refugees bring skills, talents, and aspirations to...Loe edasi...
