Using data from the National longitudinal Study of Youth, argues that intelligence quotient has an important effect on income independent of family background.
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"Saudi women have become one of the most rapidly changing elements of Arab Islamic society. Concern with socio-economic national development and the pressures to integrate women into the process of social development make the issue of women in Saudi Arabia one of particular inte…
Focuses on the ways in which working-class youth graduating from vocational colleges in the province of Ulianovsk negotiates and experiences transition from school to work. Discusses changes in the vocational education system and the reproduction of social identities and inequal…
Monograph of essays on social theories of social stratification - covers social class formation, social structure, education and social mobility, the social status of women, interest group and political power structures, aspirations of the working class in affluent society, etc.…
Monograph analyzing the social status of women in Arab country, with special emphasis on Egypt - considers historical trends in sex discrimination in relation to physical integrity, value systems (religion), social roles (family), the woman worker, etc., and relates the feminist…
Occupational sociology monograph on occupations and society - covers sociological aspects and cultural factors in the occupational structure, occupational choice, occupational change, effects of occupations on social status, use of leisure, etc., and the special case of the prof…
Women's social status, womens rights, international division of labour, capitalist country, socialist country, developing country - womens organization, trends, historical, USA and Western Europe, cultural factors, political aspects, woman workers, capitalism, feudalism, sexual …
"No hubo nunca mejor época que ésta para ser mujer: tenemos el voto y la píldora, y desde 1727 ya no nos envían a la hoguera por brujas. Pero, ¿cómo ser mujer? Esa es precisamente la gran, eterna pregunta a la que Caitlin Moran se propone responder en una obra que aborda a calzó…
Using data from the 1 per cent and 2 per cent Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) from the 1991 British Census, identifies several changes in the UK labour market including: a distinctive, new category of integrated occupations, employing men and women equally in highly qualifi…
Discusses the role of gender in social research in the field, focusing on the researcher's experience of his or her own gender and that of the respondent.
Field study of living conditions and social roles of rural women, sex discrimination and social change in two rural communitys of Peru - analyses women's subordination; looks at traditional culture, childbirth, marriage and family life; examines the sexual division of labour, so…
"A group of multidisciplinary and international researchers and scholars deliver their summary and analysis of current research and their views on how gender and work intersect along a variety of societal, economic, interpersonal, and organizational paradigms."--Jacket.
"Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links productio…
Report on a social research field study, conducted in the Tokyo urban area between 1958 and 1960, on the emergence to middle class status of the nonmanual worker and his family in Japan - covers family budget and income, the role of educational level and the examination system, …
Research papers on trends in socialist economic and social development in Mozambique during the post-colonial period - describes the historical evolution and ideology of the FRELIMO national liberation movement, and its transformation into political party; presents case studies …
Compilation of social research studies of the role of caste in the social structure of South India, Sri Lanka and North West Pakistan - covers village structure, community relations and intercaste relations, the identification of caste (social status), with a position in the occ…