Social mobility books

576 books were found.

Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities: Slow roads to progress

Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities: Slow...
Author: Jacob Meerman (American University) ISBN: 9780415694445 Format: Paperback	$96.99
The book concentrates on socially excluded minorities looking at why such groups remain among ""the poorest of the... Read More >>

Ethnic Mobilisation and Violence in Northeast India

Ethnic Mobilisation and Violence in Northeast India...
Author: Pahi Saikia ISBN: 9780415693011 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Selling One’s Favourite Piano to Emigrate: Mobility Patterns in Central Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Selling One’s Favourite Piano to Emigrate: Mobility...
Author: Jakub Isański , Piotr Luczys ISBN: 9781443829694 Format: Hardback	$179.39
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My Mother’s Table: At Home in the Maronite Diaspora, A Study of Emigration from Hadchit, North Lebanon to Australia and America

My Mother’s Table: At Home in the Maronite Diaspora,...
Author: Nelia Hyndman-Rizk ISBN: 9781443829489 Format: Hardback	$200.51
In the era of globalisation, studies of migration focus on mobility, deterritorialised identities and diasporic... Read More >>

Analysing the Consequences of Academic Mobility and Migration

Analysing the Consequences of Academic Mobility and...
Author: Fred Dervin ISBN: 9781443829786 Format: Hardback	$155.63
The figure of the medieval ""wandering scholar"" (Pietsch) has never been as true as today: Academic Mobility and... Read More >>

Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics

Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology...
Author: Stephen L. Morgan , David B. Grusky ISBN: 9780804778619 Format: Paperback	$79.07
This book is a collection of original research from the leading scholars in sociology and economics studying mobility... Read More >>

From Sun Cities to The Villages: A History of Active Adult, Age-Restricted Communities

From Sun Cities to The Villages: A History of Active...
Author: Judith Ann Trolander ISBN: 9780813036045 Format: Hardback	$184.67
Ths first book-length history of the “active adult” lifestyle. Examining the origins, development, failures, and... Read More >>

Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us

Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us
Author: Susan T. Fiske ISBN: 9780871544643 Format: Hardback	$79.07
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Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s

Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic,...
Author: Adam McKeown , Ulrike Freitag ISBN: 9789004193161 Format: Hardback	$483.12
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Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and...
Author: Karen Sternheimer ISBN: 9780415886796 Format: Paperback	$79.07
"""...a good book to add to an introduction to sociology course if you want to give your students a good sense of... Read More >>

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and...
Author: Karen Sternheimer ISBN: 9780415886789 Format: Hardback	$369.60
"""...a good book to add to an introduction to sociology course if you want to give your students a good sense of... Read More >>

Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries

Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries
Author: Ramón Spaaij (Victoria University, Australia) ISBN: 9780415874885 Format: Hardback	$336.00
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The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education,...
Author: Phillip Brown (Distinguished Research Professor, Distinguished Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University) , Hugh Lauder (Professor of Education and Political Economy, Professor of Education and Political Economy, University of Bath) ISBN: 9780199731688 Format: Hardback	$203.00
The Global Auction offers a timely exposé of the realities that threaten the livelihoods of millions of American... Read More >>

Citizens of the World: Pluralism, Migration and Practices of Citizenship

Citizens of the World: Pluralism, Migration and Practices...
Author: Robert Danisch ISBN: 9789042032552 Format: Paperback	$163.68
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Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong: The Power of a Critical Event

Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial...
Author: Francis L. F. Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) , Joseph M. Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong) ISBN: 9780415596060 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks

Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing, and...
Author: Silvia Dominguez ISBN: 9780814720776 Format: Hardback	$193.00
Features stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two Boston-area neighborhoods. In... Read More >>

Class, Individualization and Late Modernity: In Search of the Reflexive Worker

Class, Individualization and Late Modernity: In Search...
Author: W. Atkinson ISBN: 9780230242005 Format: Hardback	$116.41
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When the State Trembled: How a.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike

When the State Trembled: How a.J. Andrews and the Citizens'...
Author: Reinhold Kramer , Tom Mitchell ISBN: 9781442611160 Format: Paperback	$84.99
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When the State Trembled: How a.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike

When the State Trembled: How a.J. Andrews and the Citizens'...
Author: Reinhold Kramer , Tom Mitchell ISBN: 9781442642195 Format: Hardback	$165.00
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Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions

Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences...
Author: Richard D. Kahlenberg ISBN: 9780870785184 Format: Paperback	$52.67
The use of race-based affirmative action in higher education has given rise to hundreds of books and law review... Read More >>

Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership

Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership
Author: Chris Paris (University of Ulster, UK) ISBN: 9780415548915 Format: Hardback	$378.00
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Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership

Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership
Author: Chris Paris (University of Ulster, UK) ISBN: 9780415548922 Format: Paperback	$135.00
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Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations

Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations...
Author: Peter M. Rutkoff (Kenyon College) , William B. Scott (Kenyon College) ISBN: 9780801894770 Format: Hardback	$109.00
Broad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation... Read More >>

Weaving Transnational Solidarity: From the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond

Weaving Transnational Solidarity: From the Catskills...
Author: Katherine O’Donnell ISBN: 9789004184947 Format: Hardback	$372.24
Book documents contemporary, civil society, political and economic justice organizing by autonomous, Mayan women's... Read More >>

Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress

Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress
Author: Daniel Ben-Ami (Freelance Journalist) ISBN: 9781847423467 Format: Hardback	$103.95
In Ferraris for all, Daniel Ben-Ami argues that society as a whole benefits from greater affluence and action is... Read More >>

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