Social Class Books

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1. Sport and Social Mobility

   By Ramón Spaaij

   Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Ramón Spaaij takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in which sport facilitates or inhibits...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-87488-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Health, Healthcare, Wellbeing and Poverty

   Edited by David Hulme, David Lawson

   Because of the accentuated impact ill health has on productivity, human capital efficiency and subsequent levels of well being in developing countries, the health status of individuals in these countries is undoubtedly an important issue - particularly from an economic perspective. Providing...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-37166-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Inequality and Power: An Essay on the Economics of Class

   Edited by Eric A. Schutz

   Certainly one of the most critical problems for the U.S. in these times is the trend of increasing economic inequality. Yet mainstream economists are poorly prepared to provide the kinds of analyses that would be required for durable progress in dealing with this trend, generally arguing that...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-55480-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire

   By Cecilia Leong-Salobir

   This book is a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore and of the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. The author employs the media of domestic cookbooks, household management manuals,...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60632-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Anthony Giddens (Routledge Revivals)

   By Ian Craib

   The Giddens phenomenon has been one of the most obvious and talked about features of world sociology since the late 1960’s. This book, first published in 1992, provides a prudent and essential critical introduction to one of the leading sociologists of our time. The book is intended to provide...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-61595-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Western Sociologists on Indian Society (Routledge Revivals): Marx, Spencer, Weber, Durkheim, Pareto

   By G. R. Madan

   Of the five major sociologists whose views on Indian society are assessed in this work, originally published in 1979, Marx and Weber made a special study of the subject and had something definite to say about the future of Indian society. Herbert Spencer was primarily concerned with the effects of...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-57877-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Routledge Library Editions: Weber

   Max Weber (1894-1920) is generally recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern sociology. This collection pays homage to his continuing influence, not just within sociology, but also political theory, science and religion. The books carefully chosen for this collection provide an...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60778-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The Limits of Rationality

   In The Limits of Rationality Rogers Brubaker explores the intimate and ambiguous interplay between Max Weber's empirical work and his moral vision, between his historical and sociological analysis of the 'specific and peculiar rationalism' of modern Western civilization and his deeply ambivalent...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60779-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Max Weber and His Contempories

   Max Weber and His Contemporaries provides an unrivalled tour d'horizon of European intellectual life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and an assessment of the pivotal position within it occupied by Max Weber. Weber's many interests in and contributions to, such diverse fields as...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60781-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Social Evolution and Sociological Categories (Routledge Revivals)

    By Paul Q. Hirst

    First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences. Its thesis is that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations. Classification is not a theoretically neutral typification or ordering of social forms. This...

    November 2010 | 978-0-415-57299-6 | Paperback (Routledge)