Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social mo…
"What are the causes of inequality in capitalist society? In Understanding Class, leading left sociologist Erik Olin Wright returns to the fundamental concept underlying this question, and interrogates the different theories and paradigms that have arisen for understanding it. B…
"This exciting new study provides an original and provocative exposé of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions - economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the…
From the Publisher: The New Class Society provides a fresh, lucid, and compelling exploration of U.S. class structure, social inequities, and the fading American Dream. This third edition extends the authors' distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks …
"Introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequalities as it asks whether the American dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States have widened, hardened, and become more entrenched…
"Making Latino News examines Latino newsmaking as part of a larger narrative - the cultural productions and conceptions of Latinos. Author America Rodriguez traces historical and commercial contexts of Latino-oriented news production, beginning with late 19th century and early 2…
"Making Latino News examines Latino newsmaking as part of a larger narrative - the cultural productions and conceptions of Latinos. Author America Rodriguez traces historical and commercial contexts of Latino-oriented news production, beginning with late 19th century and early 2…
"Among the topics celebrated on these pages are the future of China's growth model ; the deepening crisis on the land ; the country's emerging class structure and the fate of its workers ; its commercial & high culture and the interactions between them ; the role of social movem…
This title gathers the opinions of economists, historians, philosophers, sociologists, writers and critics - to debate the current issues which face the People's Republic. Among the topics debated are the future of China's growth model; the deepening crisis on the land and the f…
"Among the topics celebrated on these pages are the future of China's growth model ; the deepening crisis on the land ; the country's emerging class structure and the fate of its workers ; its commercial & high culture and the interactions between them ; the role of social movem…
