Social mobility books

Social Mobility in Europe is the most comprehensive study to date of trends in intergenerational social mobility....  Read More >>

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Lack of access to transportation among low-income groups is increasingly being recognised as a barrier to social...  Read More >>

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In the context of the ongoing destandardization of young people's lives, this book explores changing patterns of...  Read More >>

With a tribute to William H. Sewell, one of the pioneering thinkers in post World War II social stratification,...  Read More >>

Award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano takes an incisive look at the estimated 65 million Americans who straddle...  Read More >>

New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed ‘global' condition...  Read More >>

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A tribute to the working- and lower-middle classes, this book encapsulates the aspirational Victorian desire for...  Read More >>

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In the US, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live in the same housing developments and...  Read More >>

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Presents a series of papers that discuss political opportunity and social movements. This book includes case studies...  Read More >>

This book argues that we do control our own political and economic destinies. The author argues that we must continuously...  Read More >>

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An ethnographic study of the Izhavas in Kerala, India, highlighting the complexities and contradictions of modern...  Read More >>

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Did urbanization kill 'community' in the nineteenth century, or even earlier? In this highly regarded volume Bender...  Read More >>

Making use of theory, reflection, narrativity and auto/biographical writing, this book forms an accessible understanding...  Read More >>

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