Social mobility books

576 books were found.

Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men

Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working-Class...
Author: Alex Blower (Arts University Bournemouth) ISBN: 9781447370253 Format: Paperback	$20.95
Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational... Read More >>

Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men

Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working-Class...
Author: Alex Blower (Arts University Bournemouth) ISBN: 9781447370246 Format: Hardback	$165.95
Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational... Read More >>

Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South

Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and...
Author: Rosie Walters (Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics) ISBN: 9781529238457 Format: Hardback	$165.95
Drawing on interviews with Girl Up members globally, this book challenges criticisms of the campaign by demonstrating... Read More >>

The Concept and Ethics of Manipulation

The Concept and Ethics of Manipulation
Author: Shlomo Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) ISBN: 9781009443449 Format: Hardback	$232.88
Everyone is exposed to manipulation daily, and everyone manipulates too. The impact of manipulations in personal,... Read More >>

The Making of a Left-Behind Class: Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation

The Making of a Left-Behind Class: Educational Stratification,...
Author: Fred Powell (University College Cork) , Margaret Scanlon (University College Cork) ISBN: 9781447367956 Format: Paperback	$57.95
Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating... Read More >>

Changing Mobilities

Changing Mobilities
Author: Monika Büscher (Lancaster University, UK) , Greg Marsden ISBN: 9780415661928 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Fostering Refugee Resilience: Global Perspectives on Integration, Inclusion, and Prosperity

Fostering Refugee Resilience: Global Perspectives on...
Author: Basma El Zein (University of Business and Technology, Saudi Arabia) , Ahmed Al Jarwan (Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, Malta) ISBN: 9781836089698 Format: Hardback	$207.00
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Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working...
Author: Batya Ungar-Sargon ISBN: 9781641774390 Format: Paperback	$34.99
A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions... Read More >>

The Trading Game: A Confession

The Trading Game: A Confession
Author: Gary Stevenson ISBN: 9781802062731 Format: Paperback	$24.99
The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you... Read More >>

Muslim Mobilities: Geographies of Piety and Belonging in Tajik Dubai Business

Muslim Mobilities: Geographies of Piety and Belonging...
Author: Manja Stephan ISBN: 9783111343488 Format: Hardback	$290.37
A spatial analysis of Tajik migrants' engagement in projects of reform Islamic life in Dubai, the book maps Gulf... Read More >>

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story...
Author: Esau McCaulley ISBN: 9780593241103 Format: Paperback	$47.52
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Extinction Equilibrium: Economics for Generational Survival

Extinction Equilibrium: Economics for Generational Survival...
Author: Jefferson Frank (Royal Holloway, University of London) ISBN: 9781529226379 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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The Hidden Minority: Perceptions of Belonging and Otherness in the Finnish – Russian Borderland

The Hidden Minority: Perceptions of Belonging and Otherness...
Author: Helena Jerman ISBN: 9781805397564 Format: Hardback	$269.10
Looking at the Finnish–Russian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand... Read More >>

Extinction Equilibrium: Economics for Generational Survival

Extinction Equilibrium: Economics for Generational Survival...
Author: Jefferson Frank (Royal Holloway, University of London) ISBN: 9781529226362 Format: Hardback	$165.95
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Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration: The Rise of the Meritocracy

Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration: The Rise...
Author: Shaun Best (The University of Winchester) ISBN: 9781447374961 Format: Hardback	$165.95
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Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation

Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation...
Author: Danny Dorling ISBN: 9781911723509 Format: Paperback	$34.99
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Climbing up the Social Ladder?: Social Mobility of Elites in East-Central Europe in the Long 19th Century

Climbing up the Social Ladder?: Social Mobility of Elites...
Author: Vlad Popovici , Alice Velková ISBN: 9783110749014 Format: Hardback	$277.17
Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position.... Read More >>

Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK

Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp...
Author: Mary O'Hara (Freelance Journalist) ISBN: 9781447374527 Format: Paperback	$26.95
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Social Constructions of Migration in Nigeria and Zimbabwe: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Identity

Social Constructions of Migration in Nigeria and Zimbabwe:...
Author: Kunle Musbaudeen Oparinde (Durban University of Technology, South Africa) , Rodwell Makombe (North-West University, South Africa) ISBN: 9781835491690 Format: Hardback	$194.06
Examining this pressing field of study in an underexplored regional context, this book takes a refreshing new angle... Read More >>

Education and Upward Social Mobility in China: Imagining Positive Sociology with Bourdieu

Education and Upward Social Mobility in China: Imagining...
Author: Jin Jin (East China Normal University, China) ISBN: 9781032603063 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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The College Affordability Crisis

The College Affordability Crisis
Author: Laurie Collier Hillstrom (Independent Scholar, USA) ISBN: 9798216190219 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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Land, Promise, and Peril: Race and Stratification in the Rural South

Land, Promise, and Peril: Race and Stratification in...
Author: Mary D. Coleman (Economic Mobility Pathways) ISBN: 9781009182553 Format: Paperback	$77.60
A unique study of the interplay between race and local power dynamics in the American South which connects family... Read More >>

Official Statistics and the Welfare State: Measuring Poverty in Britain and West Germany (19702020)

Official Statistics and the Welfare State: Measuring...
Author: Alex Fenton ISBN: 9783837657517 Format: Paperback	$145.20
Alex Fenton sets out a sociological approach to analyzing how official statistics are produced by government agencies,... Read More >>

Costly Opportunities: Social Mobility in Segregated Societies

Costly Opportunities: Social Mobility in Segregated...
Author: María José Álvarez-Rivadulla (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) ISBN: 9781009503235 Format: Paperback	$46.58
This Element investigates inequality in Latin America through a unique case of class integration in Colombian higher... Read More >>

Costly Opportunities: Social Mobility in Segregated Societies

Costly Opportunities: Social Mobility in Segregated...
Author: María José Álvarez-Rivadulla (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) ISBN: 9781009503204 Format: Hardback	$142.31
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