Social mobility books

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Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie

Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie

Author: Elisabeth Schimpfössl (Lecturer in Sociology and Policy, Lecturer in Sociology and Policy, Aston University)
ISBN: 9780190677763
Format: Hardback
$117.95

The lives of wealthy people have long held an allure to many, but the lives of wealthy Russians pose a particular...  Read More >>

Fair Progress?: Economic Mobility Across Generations Around the World

Fair Progress?: Economic Mobility Across Generations...

Author: Ambar Narayan ,  Roy Van der Weide
ISBN: 9781464812101
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State

At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination,...

Author: Chloe N. Thurston (Northwestern University, Illinois)
ISBN: 9781108422055
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Homeownership is a paradox of American culture: a symbol of capitalist meritocracy, yet historically made possible...  Read More >>

Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations

Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory...

Author: Brenda J. Baker ,  Takeyuki Tsuda
ISBN: 9780813064734
Format: Paperback
$53.90

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Keywords of Mobility: Critical Engagements

Keywords of Mobility: Critical Engagements

Author: Noel B. Salazar ,  Kiran Jayaram
ISBN: 9781785338151
Format: Paperback
$61.97

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary...  Read More >>

Social Mobility and the Legal Profession: The case of professional associations and access to the English Bar

Social Mobility and the Legal Profession: The case of...

Author: Elaine Freer
ISBN: 9781138052697
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The New Middle Class in India and Brazil: Green Perspectives?

The New Middle Class in India and Brazil: Green Perspectives?...

Author: Dawid Danilo Bartelt ,  Axel Harneit-Sievers
ISBN: 9789332704145
Format: Hardback
$124.07

With perspectives from India and Brazil, this volume provides new insights into what is likely the most significant...  Read More >>

Parenting, Education, and Social Mobility in Rural China: Cultivating dragons and phoenixes

Parenting, Education, and Social Mobility in Rural China:...

Author: Peggy A. Kong
ISBN: 9781138494695
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book examines how parents in rural China engage strategies to support their children’s education that are largely...  Read More >>

Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world’s education superpowers

Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world’s...

Author: Lucy Crehan
ISBN: 9781783524914
Format: Paperback
$24.99

As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming...  Read More >>

Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

Author: Rowena Fong (Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor, School of Social Work, University of Texas - Austin) ,  James E. Lubben (Louise McMahon Ahearn Endowed Professor in Social Work, Boston College)
ISBN: 9780190858988
Format: Hardback
$69.95

The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social...  Read More >>

The Mobilities Paradox: A Critical Analysis

The Mobilities Paradox: A Critical Analysis

Author: Maximiliano E. Korstanje
ISBN: 9781788113304
Format: Hardback
$220.50

The theory of mobilities has gained great recognition and traction over recent decades, illustrating not only the...  Read More >>

The Social Question in the Global World

The Social Question in the Global World

Author: Ewa Bogalska-Martin ,  Emmanuel Matteudi
ISBN: 9781527505377
Format: Hardback
$263.87

In an era of rapid globalisation, how can the changes that characterise how the social question is addressed in...  Read More >>

A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America

A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College...

Author: Rochelle Brock ,  Cynthia B. Dillard
ISBN: 9781433149733
Format: Hardback
$316.27

A Black Woman's Journey follows Mildred Sirls as a young Black girl in rural east Texas in the 1930s who picked...  Read More >>

Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Overachieve, Be Cheerful, or Confront

Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans:...

Author: Chrystal Y. Grey ,  Thomas Janoski
ISBN: 9781498554497
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book explores how African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies can be so different...  Read More >>

Music, Song, Dance, Theater: Broadway meets Social Justice Youth Community Practice

Music, Song, Dance, Theater: Broadway meets Social Justice...

Author: Melvin Delgado (Professor of Social Work & Co-Director, Center on Addictions Research and Services (CARS), Boston University School of Social Work)
ISBN: 9780190642167
Format: Hardback
$76.95

The performing arts is an emerging area of youth community practice that has tremendous potential for reaching and...  Read More >>

Inclusive Group Work

Inclusive Group Work

Author: William Pelech ,  Robert Basso
ISBN: 9780190657093
Format: Paperback
$282.45

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Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town: Ghetto Chameleons

Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town: Ghetto...

Author: Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard (NSCR, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415818919
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town offers an ethnographic study of young men in Cape Town and considers...  Read More >>

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