Living with Class - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture.

Class and Contemporary British Culture - Anita Biressi - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference?

Writing Ireland's Working Class - Michael Pierse - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Seán O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life. Examining how working-class identity is depicted by authors like Brendan Behan and Roddy Doyle, it discusses how this hidden, urban Ireland has appeared in the country's literature.

Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain - Gillian Evans - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Are schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school? Focusing on Southeast London, this book provides insight into class values and reveals the complex cultural politics of white working class pride.

Class, Individualization and Late Modernity - W. Atkinson - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradition. Arguing against this view, this study vividly uncovers the multiple ways in which class stubbornly persists.

Social Class, Social Action, and Education - A. Schutz - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Schutz demonstrates that progressive ideas of democracy emerged out of the practices of a new middle class, reacting, in part, against the more conflictive social struggles of the working-class. The volume traces two distinct branches of democratic progressivism: collaborative and personalist.

Making the Middle-class City - Wouter Van Gent - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

​This book seeks to understand the urban transformation of Amsterdam over a 40-year period. In addition to charting social and economic changes associated with gentrification, it analyses the electoral dynamics and middle-class politics that have underpinned Amsterdam''s change to a middle-class city.

State-led Modernization and the New Middle Class in Malaysia - A. Embong - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Rich in detail and lucidly written, this is the first definitive study of the new middle class in Malaysia. Abdul Rahman Embong examines the emergence and role of the new Malay middle class, particularly with regard to democratization and evolution of civil society in Malaysia. As well as exploring variations within the class across the country, the author also draws comparisons with the Malay working class, and the middle classes of China, India and elsewhere in East Asia.

Digesting Race, Class, and Gender - I. Ken - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms conflict or work together? In Digesting Race, Class, and Gender, Ivy Ken likens race, class, and gender to foods - foods that are produced in fields, mixed together in bowls, and digested in our social and institutional bodies. In the field, one food may contaminate another through cross-pollination. In the mixing bowl, each food s original molecular structure changes in the presence of others. And within a meal, the presence of one food may impede or facilitate the digestion of another. At each of these sites, the "foods" of race, class, and gender are involved in dynamic relationships with each other that have implications for the shape - or the taste - of our social order.

Music and the Making of Middle-Class Culture - A. Pieper - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Music and the Making of the Middle Class explores the making of middle-class culture by analyzing and comparing the ethos and organization of Leipzig's Gewandhaus and Birmingham's Triennial Festival. It employs a multidisciplinary approach to identify the social processes which formed the cultural configurations and meanings of art.

Working-Class Boys and Educational Success - Nicola Ingram - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the complex relationship between working-class masculinities and educational success. Drawing on a small sample of young men attending either a selective grammar or a secondary school in the same urban area of Belfast, the author demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, some working-class boys are engaged with education, are motivated to succeed and have high aspirations. However, the structures of schooling in a society where working class-ness is seen as feckless, tasteless and cultureless make the processes of becoming successful more challenging than they need to be. This volume reveals the unique processes of reconciling success and identities for individual working-class boys, and the important role schools have to play in this negotiation. Highly relevant to those engaged in teacher training in socially unequal societies, this book will also appeal to practitioners, sociologists of education, scholars of social justice and Bourdieusian theorists.

Masculinity, Class and Music Education - Clare Hall - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book offers a provocative sociological examination of masculinity, class and music education within the context of a unique and fascinating culture: the classical musical world of choirboys.

Beyond World Class - C. Morton - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Being ''world class'' is inextricably linked to being competitive. In this new book the author builds upon Becoming World Class and incorporates his experience of introducing fundamental changes in a number of major organisations. The author discusses how organisations can compete when competitors have also introduced the management innovations of recent years and become `lean''. He argues that success comes not from making business processes more efficient but from the contribution of people and he examines how companies can successfully motivate employees. This is an innovative book which puts forward a new approach for regional development in a global context. The author argues that the three elements of society, the firm and individual must work together to achieve economic growth in these competitive and changing times.

Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 - Helen Smith - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 explores the experiences of men who desired other men outside of the capital. In doing so, it offers a unique intervention into the history of sexuality but it also offers new ways to understand masculinity, working-class culture, regionality and work in the period.

Class, Gender and the Family Business - K. Mulholland - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

In raising probing questions about the relationship between gender power, class power and enterprise, this book brings a new and insightful perspective to the study of family capitalism. Mulholland explores the links between class as a resource and enterprise, the connections between the organization of the sexual division of labour and enterprise, the relationship between masculinity and enterprise and the manner in which emotional labour and domesticity also contribute to the construction of business. Based on a regional study of newly created and inherited enterprise across different sectors, interviews were conducted amongst seventy major business families and one hundred family members.

The Shrinking American Middle Class - Joseph Dillon Davey - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The United States lost one third of its factory jobs in the past decade as jobs were outsourced offshore, mostly to Asia. Jobs that require a college degree are next to go. China will award six times as many degrees this year as they did ten years ago and any job that can be digitized will be ''tradable''. Estimates of the number of vulnerable jobs range from a low 11 million to a staggering 56 million ''middle class'' jobs. The median United States household income has already dropped by seven percent since 2000 and without dramatic changes in the American workforce that trend will become a disaster for middle class Americans.

Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America - J. Petras - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The 1980s in Latin America saw the implementation of a sweeping programme of economic reforms, either imposed as a condition for securing new loans or to embrace the neoliberal doctrine of structural adjustment, the ideology of a newly formed transnational capitalist class.

Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830–1945 - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Fourteen leading Irish and international historians and political scientists trace the politicization of Irish workers during a period of considerable social and political turmoil. This volume is a milestone in Irish labour and political historiography and an important contribution to the international literature on politics and the working class.

White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling - D. James - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children. It offers a unique view of identity formation, taking in matters like family history, locality and whiteness.

White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling - D. Reay - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children. It offers a unique view of identity formation, taking in matters like family history, locality and whiteness.

Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature - M. Mcglynn - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. Includes discussions of Booker Prize winners Roddy Doyle and James Kelman.

Class Formation, Civil Society and the State - Michael Burrage - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Rather than a ranking system based on occupational prestige, this book explains social stratification through political events and decisions. Using analyses of Russia, France, the United States and England, Burrage claims that class stems from the habitual relationship between state and civil society and, remarkably, is undermined by free markets.

Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film - K. Gandal - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A fresh exploration of the representation of poverty and class in American literature and film, through the juxtaposition of films, writings and the unusual lives of Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Henry Miller and Michel Foucault. The book argues for Hurston''s centrality, not merely to the African-American canon, but to the American tradition.

Class Struggle - Domenico Losurdo - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Class Choreographies - Cameron Mccarthy - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence. The world over, they put together highly dexterous performances as they stage and restage changing relations of ruling. They are adept at aligning their social choreographies to shifting historical conditions and cultural tastes. In multiple theatres, they now regularly rehearse the irregular art of being global. Elite schools around the world are positioned at the intersecting pinnacles of various scales, systems and regimes of social, cultural, political and economic power. They have much in common but are also diverse. They illustrate how various modalities of power are enjoyed and put to work and how educational and social inequalities are shaped and shifted. They, thus, speak to the social zeitgeist. This book dissects this intricate choreography.