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This book analyses the magnitude of the relationship between family background and adult occupational and educational outcomes and provides a comprehensive view of …
Originally published in 1976 The Rise of the Medical Profession combines a sociological and historical approach to the rise of the medical profession in England. Sociologically it …
The study of education and social mobility has been a key area of sociological research since the 1950s. The importance of this research derives from the systematic analysis of …
Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Second Edition considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today, retaining …
The book is a very detailed work on the relationship between movements for autonomy by indigenous peoples (the so-called 'tribes') and violence in Assam, in northeast India. The …
This is Volume XVI of twenty-one in a series on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1954, this study looks at social mobility in Great Britain; including …
This book concentrates on ethnic minorities such as former slaves, outcastes and indigenous peoples dispossessed of homeland. These groups are universally without power, usually …
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and …
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed 'global' condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called …
This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates. Social transition from a working-class background to a …