Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class. Using social network analysis, this title maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world's largest corporati…
Classed Intersections examines the salience, transformation and tension of class analysis at a crucial juncture when class investigation is returning to and reinventing sociological agendas. The contributors, including both established and emerging academics, examine class as pr…
Since the financial crisis, the issue of the òne percent' has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic rese…
The author examines six signposts of American history - the settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown, the ratification of the Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, the cowboy, the "kitchen debate" between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"…
Citizenship and social class
by Marshall, T. H., Bottomore, Tom, (Bottomore, Tom B.)
fromPluto classic
A monograph on the prospects for social equality in post-war Britain, followed by detailed consideration of what has in fact been achieved. Marshall discusses citizenship and social equality and Bottomore takes up these themes and discusses them in the wider perspective of Weste…
More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. C…
Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990's, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far …
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favour of the moneyed 'upscale' consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how…