Forthcoming Social Class Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

   Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Charities of London, 1480 - 1660

   The aspirations and the achievements of the urban society

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Sport and Social Mobility

   Crossing Boundaries

   By Ramón Spaaij

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   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? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990–2000

   By Michael E Martin

   Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

   Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. The American Middle Class

   A Cultural History

   By Lawrence Samuel

   The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class. Yet today the American middle class is...

   To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China

   Governing Difference

   Edited by Ravinder Kaur, Ayo Wahlberg

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years. The book approaches difference as a double edged concept that allows one to make sense of the...

   To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. Geographies of Health, Disease and Well-being

   Recent Advances in Theory and Method

   Edited by Mei-Po Kwan

   This book is a collection of papers reflecting the latest advances in geographic research on health, disease, and well-being. It spans a wide range of topics, theoretical perspectives, and methodologies - including anti-racism, post-colonialism, spatial statistics, spatiotemporal modeling,...

   To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
8. The State, Class and the Recession (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Stewart Clegg, Geoff Dow, Paul Boreham

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes. The first examines the major recession that took hold of the global economy during the 1980s and assesses its effects on key areas of social structure, including political and economic...

   To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by Routledge
9. Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)

   By Stewart Clegg, Paul Boreham, Geoff Dow

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective....

   To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by Routledge
10. The Black Professional Middle Class

    Race, Class, and Community in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    By Eric S. Brown

    Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

    Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professionals in the workplace, community, and local politics. Brown shows how overlapping dynamics of class formation and racial formation...

    To Be Published August 28th 2013 by Routledge