Sociology & Social Policy

Civilized Rebels compares in depth four well-known literary and political figures, all of whom opposed arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Through comparative biographies of Oscar Wilde, Jean Améry, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it explores the long-term process of the retreat of the West ..

Clash of Barbarisms..

To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westemers placed themselves on top and all others below them. This book shows how Arabs, Muslims, Turks, and Jews absorbed, revised, yet remained loyal to this Western vision...

A humorous insight into the day to day process of trade union activism...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Demonstrates how differences in social class affect personality. This book presents research in class character covering a broad range of phenomena in the area shared by psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and anthropology. It also explores the relationship between personality and social status...

Class Conflict..

Demonstrates the power of moving beyond cultural politics to a deeper class critique of contemporary life. Making a case for class as the material logic of culture and surpassing the orthodoxies of cultural studies, this book also attempts to make connections among the seemingly unrelated cultural e..

Class in the New Millennium paints a fresh and comprehensive picture of social class in Britain today. Anchored in a broad repertoire of methods and pursuing a distinctive theoretical agenda, it not only painstakingly maps the structure, transformation and effects of the UK’s key fault lines but goe..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The book shows how class has not disappeared, but is known and spoken in a myriad of different ways, always working through other categorizations of nation, race, gender and sexuality...