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Class practices

This new book is a comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in america and britain. It addresses the key issue in stratification research, namely, the stability of class relations and midd...

Brand: cambridge university press

Pathways to social class

Calling for a broader, new approach to social mobility research, daniel bertaux and paul thompson here move beyond pure statistics to use qualitative techniques - such as life stories and family case studies - to examine more closely the dyna...

Brand: oxford university press

Social mobility and class structure in modern britain

The second edition of this classic study, fully updated and extended, now includes an analysis of recent trends in intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and views of social mobility in modern britain from a cross... john h...

Brand: oxford university press clarendon press oxford university press

Social mobility myths

In social mobility myths, peter saunders, professor emeritus of sociology at the university of sussex, sets out to convince the political class that modern britain is a much more open and meritocratic society than most of us realise and talent and...

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Celebrity culture and the american dream

Using examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present celebrity culture and the american dream considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today. Equally imp...

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Remaking of the british working class, 1850-1940

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the working class in britain in the years after 1850, and shows how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation.

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