Social Class Books

New and Published Books

1. Geographies of Privilege

   Edited by France Winddance Twine, Bradley Gardener

   How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony

   The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

   By Kaeko Chiba

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Unions and Class Transformation

   The Case of the Broadway Musicians

   By Catherine P. Mulder

   Series: New Political Economy

   How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindness lead to weak and often unintended results. Unions, she argues, do not use their collective power for class transformation and union commentators/...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples (Routledge Revivals)

   An Essay in Correlation

   By L. T. Hobhouse, G. C. Wheeler, M Ginsberg

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Originally published in 1915, this pioneer study has long occupied an important place in the literature of sociology. An exercise in the statistical correlation of the economic and social institutions of the working classes of the early twentieth century, the book is an important link between...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)

   A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism

   By Mervyn Matthews

   First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football

   Comparative Responses across Europe

   Edited by Peter Kennedy, David Kennedy

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   As football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express their club loyalty by ‘thinking business’ - acting as consumers and generating money deemed necessary for their clubs...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Writing Beyond Race

   Living Theory and Practice

   By bell hooks

   What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination. In the spirit of previous classics like...

   Published October 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. Culture, Class, and Critical Theory

   Between Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School

   By David Gartman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society. This theory is developed through a critique and comparison of the powerful ideas on culture offered by Pierre Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from current case studies of social inequality in more than ten countries within all the major regions of the...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Social Class and Crime

    A Biosocial Approach

    By Anthony Walsh

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a...

    Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge