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Social inequalities in comparative perspective
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ISBN: 0631226842 0631226850 9780631226840 9780631226857 Year: 2004 Publisher: Malden, Mass: Blackwell,

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This collection of original essays brings a comparative perspective to issues of social inequality. Sociologists from around the world have contributed to this rigorous volume, drawing upon their own research in the fields of race and ethnicity, class and inequality, and gender and sexuality.

Class practices
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ISBN: 052180941X 0521006538 0511216912 9780511216916 051121331X 9780511213311 0511211546 9780511211546 9780521809412 9780521006538 0511215126 9780511215124 9780511488771 0511488777 1280541059 9781280541056 1107144116 0511315597 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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This important new book is a comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue in stratification research, namely, the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction. Drawing on interviewee accounts of how parents mobilised economic, cultural and social resources to help them into professional careers, it then considers how the interviewees, as parents, seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement. Middle-class parents may try to secure their children's social position but it is not an easy or straightforward affair. With the decline of the quality of state education and increased job insecurity in the labour market since the 1970s and 1980s, the reproduction of advantage is more difficult than in the affluent decades of the 1950s and 1960s. The implications for public policy, especially public investment in higher education, are considered.

Social class in America and Britain
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ISBN: 0748606661 9780748606665 Year: 1997 Publisher: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press in association with The Aga Khan University,

Social class in America and Britain
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ISBN: 0585102783 9780585102788 0748606661 9780748606665 Year: 1997 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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Affluent workers revisited : privatism and the working class
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ISBN: 0748603700 Year: 1992 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh university press

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Sociological research methods in context
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ISBN: 0333666313 0333666321 Year: 1999 Publisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan,

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Doing social science : evidence and methods in empirical research
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ISBN: 9780230537897 9780230537903 Year: 2009 Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,

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