Books On Social Class
Social Class, Abstracts, Social
Class Bibliography, Social Class Syllabus, Journals, Bourgeoisie, Petite Bourgeoisie, Social Structure
Psychological
Meanings of Social Class in the Context of Education Book by Joan Ostrove, Elizabeth
R. Cole, Joan M. Ostrove (Editor)
The
Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq : by Hanna Batatu
Class
and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White
Achievement Gap Book by Richard Rothstein
How
Class Works : Power and Social Movement Book by Stanley Aronowitz
New
Working-class Studies Book by John Russo (Editor), Sherry Lee Linkon (Editor)
Talk
That Counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse Ronald K. S.
MacAulay
Social
Inequality: Patterns and Processes Book by Martin Marger
Boston
Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
Book by Ronald P. Formisano
What's
Class Got to Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century
Book by Michael Zweig (Editor)
Structure
of Social Stratification in the United States, The (4th Edition)
Book by Leonard Beeghley
Revolution
And Counterrevolution: Class Struggle In A Moscow Metal Factory (International Studies
in Social History) Book by Kevin Murphy
Social
Mobility In Europe Book by Richard Breen (Editor)
Experiencing
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
Book by Roberta Fiske-Rusciano, Virginia Cyrus
Adolescent
Lives in Transition: How Social Class Influences the Adjustment to Middle School Book
by Donna Marie San Antonio
Youth
Deviance in Japan: Class Reproduction of Non-Conformity Robert Stuart Yoder
The
Parlour and the Suburb : Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity
Book by Judy Giles
The
Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream Book by
Sheryll Cashin
A
Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World (Themes
in Global Social Change) Book by William I. Robinson
Social
Inequalities in Comparative Perspective
Book by Fiona Devine (Editor), Mary C. Waters (Editor)
Harvard
Works Because We Do Book by Studs Terkel (Foreword), Greg Halpern
Reviews:
Psychological
Meanings of Social Class in the Context of Education
Book by Joan Ostrove, Elizabeth R. Cole, Joan M. Ostrove (Editor)
This issue of the Journal of Social Issues explores psychological meanings of social class
in the context of education. In this article we propose an outline for a critical
psychology of social class and discuss why education is a useful context for examining
relations between class and individual psychology. We consider how research and theory in
the study of race and gender can and cannot inform a psychology of social class. We
introduce three themes that organize the issue and the articles that illustrate them. The
articles in this issue address all levels of education, include data from within and
outside of the United States, and investigate perspectives of individuals from a range of
social class groups.
Class differences were boundaries no one wanted to face or talk about. It was easier to
downplay them, to act as though we were all from privileged backgrounds, to work around
them, to confront them privately in the solitude of one's room, or to pretend that just
being chosen to study at such an institution meant that those of us who did not come from
such privilege were already in transition toward privilege . It was a kind of treason not
to believe that it was better to be identified with the world of material privilege than
with the world of the working class, the poor. - Hooks, 1989.
Class
and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White
Achievement Gap Book by Richard Rothstein
Book Description
Social class characteristics in a stratified society like ours influence learning in
school. For nearly half a century, the association between social and economic
disadvantage and the student achievement gap has been well known to economists,
sociologists, and educators. Most, however, have avoided the obvious implication of this
understanding, that raising the achievement of lower-class children requires that public
policy address the social and economic conditions of these children’s lives, not just
school reform.
How
Class Works : Power and Social Movement Book by Stanley Aronowitz
Although Americans like to believe that they live in a classless society, Stanley
Aronowitz demonstrates that class remains a potent force. Defining class as the power of
social groups to make a difference, he explains that social groups such as labor
movements, environmental activists, and feminists become classes when they make demands
that change the course of history.
“In How Class Works Aronowitz argues for the enduring vitality of the concept of
social class as a way of understanding social relations. This is a significant
contribution to social theory, an argument certain to be widely considered, debated, and
tested.”
--George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger
Talk
That Counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse Book by Ronald K.
S. MacAulay
In Talk That Counts, distinguished sociolinguist Rinals Macaulay provides a new way of
examining sociolinguistic variation. Linguists traditionally take a limited sample of
linguistic data from a given population and look at phonological and morphological
variables. Macaulay proposes a much different and highly quantitative approach to the
study of variation, which correlates features of discourse with three social categories:
social class, gender, and age. He uses as data a sample from 33 speakers of English in
Glasgow, and his conclusions indicate that age accounts for the greatest number of
differences, followed by gender, with social class accounting for the most variation
within a group. Macaulay's work offers a new methodological paradigm to an audience of
sociolinguists and others like sociologists concerned with discourse analysis.
Social
Inequality: Patterns and Processes Book by Martin Marger
This text provides an introduction to key concepts, current research findings, and
theories in social inequality.
Boston
Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
Book by Ronald P. Formisano
This work offers a convincing and dispassionate assessment of an emotionally charged
subject: court-ordered school desegregation in Boston and, most particularly, the white
backlash associated with it. Calling the conflict a "war that nobody won,"
Formisano ( The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1780s-1840s )
examines the social and economic roots of what he terms "reactionary populism,"
concluding that more than simple racism underlay it. Class was an important issue, as
evidenced by the frustration of city residents dictated to by legislators and members of
the media whose own children attended schools in the "lily white suburbs,"
beyond the reach of the controversial desegregation plan.
What's
Class Got to Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century
Book by Michael Zweig (Editor)
"Whether in regard to the economy or issues of war and peace, class is central to our
everyday lives. Yet class has not been as visible as race or gender, not nearly as much a
part of our conversations and sense of ourselves as these and other
‘identities.’ We are of course all individuals, but our individuality and
personal life chances are shaped—limited or enhanced—by the economic and social
class in which we have grown up and in which we exist as adults."—from the
Introduction
The contributors to this volume argue that class identity in the United States has been
hidden for too long. Their essays, published here for the first time, cover the relation
of class to race and gender, to globalization and public policy, and to the lives of young
adults. They describe how class, defined in terms of economic and political power rather
than income, is in fact central to Americans’ everyday lives. What’s Class Got
to Do with It? is an important resource for the new field of working class studies.
Structure
of Social Stratification in the United States, The (4th Edition)
Book by Leonard Beeghley
This text examines the structure of stratification in the United States, focusing on the
way one's class location influences his or her life opportunities. Beeghley takes a
structural point of view that distinguishes between individual and structural-level
explanations of stratification, and shows how three dimensions of stratification (class,
gender, and race/ethnicity) are interconnected. Anyone interested in reading about social
stratification or the sociology aspects of poverty and wealth.
Social
Mobility In Europe Book by Richard Breen (Editor)
Social Mobility in Europe is the most comprehensive study to date of trends in
intergenerational social mobility. It uses data from 11 European countries covering the
last 30 years of the twentieth century to analyze differences between countries and
changes through time. The findings call into question several long-standing views about
social mobility. We find a growing similarity between countries in their class structures
and rates of absolute mobility: in other words, the countries of Europe are now more alike
in their flows between class origins and destinations than they were thirty years ago.
However, differences between countries in social fluidity (that is, the relative chances,
between people of different class origins, of being found in given class destinations)
show no reduction and so there is no evidence supporting theories of modernization which
predict such convergence.
Adolescent
Lives in Transition: How Social Class Influences the Adjustment to Middle School Book
by Donna Marie San Antonio
Research on the impact of social class variables on experiences of adolescents as they
transition to middle school.
Addressing the issues of educational equity and social class diversity, Donna Marie San
Antonio documents the challenges adolescents face when making the transition from
elementary school to middle school.
Youth
Deviance in Japan: Class Reproduction of Non-Conformity
Book by Robert Stuart Yoder
Based on fieldwork spanning two decades, this book presents a longitudinal study of
deviance and crime among youths in Kanagawa-ken, with a focus upon two groups of young
people ? a working class group and a middle-class group. The author, a long-term resident
in Japan, has managed to keep in touch with his subjects for twenty years and offers vivid
descriptions of nonconformity among Japanese youngsters and an in-depth analysis of the
way in which youth deviance is reproduced along class lines.
The
Parlour and the Suburb : Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity
Book by Judy Giles
Classic accounts of modernity have generally ignored or marginalized women, relegating
them to the private sphere of home, sexuality, and personal relationships. The Parlour and
the Suburb argues, however, that home and private life have been significant in the
formation of modern feminine identities. Twentieth-century women's studies tend to focus
on middle-class women, but Giles includes working-class women throughout the book.
A
Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World (Themes
in Global Social Change) Book by William I. Robinson
"Yet another book on globalization? If you think you have read too many already,
think again! Here is a fresh look at the subject which shatters the illusion that
globalization has to do with either free international trade or the disappearance of the
state. Robinson expertly gathers the diverse threads that run through our world order and
unerringly hones in on class and transnational power at the heart of it."--Ankie
Hoogvelt, University of Sheffield
Social
Inequalities in Comparative Perspective
Book by Fiona Devine (Editor), Mary C. Waters (Editor)
Racial and ethnic divisions in the United States originated in three distinct historical
processes: (1) slavery and the forced migration of Africans in the sixteenth through the
nineteenth centuries; (2) the expansion of the US through conquest of the indigenous
American Indians and the annexation of Spanish-speaking people in the Southwest; and (3)
centuries of voluntary immigration from around the globe.
Harvard
Works Because We Do Book by Studs Terkel (Foreword), Greg Halpern (Introduction)
Though the book's format is not original, the rarefied Harvard setting makes America's
class differences especially stark.
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