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A powerful look at the real America, dominated by America's "forgotten majority" - white working-class men and women who make up 55 percent of the voting population.

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Being Unequal explores how identity categories associated with race, class, gender, and sexuality help shape inequality. This concise and accessible book asks: How is identity experienced How does identity help reproduce inequality How does identity help resist inequality What is the relationship between micro and macro inequality

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Being Unequal explores how identity categories associated with race, class, gender, and sexuality help shape inequality. This concise and accessible book asks: How is identity experienced How does identity help reproduce inequality How does identity help resist inequality What is the relationship between micro and macro inequality

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An estimated 40 percent of global assets are controlled by 1,645 men and women - the billionaires. This book reveals what the other 99.9998 per cent of us need to know. With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, it goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy.

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A study of 18th and early 19th century bourgeois society by American, European and Israeli scholars in history, anthropology, literature, sociology and law. It examines the specific characteristics of the middle class social types, and the extent to which their values and interests altered the texture of 19th century European society.

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The rapid emergence and explosive growth of China's middle class have enormous consequences for that nation's domestic future, for the global economy, and for the whole world.

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The study of class structure is crucial to the understanding of society and social transformation, as these are based on class relations and class struggle. The book provides a critical analysis of major theories of inequality, an analysis of class structure in different societies, and the relationship between class, race, and gender.

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This book is about the transformation of the contemporary Peruvian middle class. Scholars interested in Latin American stratification and urbanization will find this book informative about two oft neglected, but highly relevant, topics in the region: the middle classes and the formal area of the city.

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Portrays the crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. This book shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditions. It examines the cultural issues that animate peasant-worker life.

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This work challenges the field of British cultural studies to return to the question of social class as a primary focus of study. The chapters examine contemporary working-class life and its depiction in the media through a number of case studies on topics such as popular cinema and football.

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The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a creative class in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture.

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Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellectuals who met at the home of Baron d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century. This major critical study shows, contrary to the accepted views, that in fact, atheism was not the common bond

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This study is an intellectual and cultural history of the French nobility in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It examines attitudes toward sexuality and gender and analyzes the origins of the stereotype of the French libertine.

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A look at the origins, evolution and demise of the aristocracy and what we can expect to replace them.

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The most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else. Reeves defines the upper middle class as those whose incomes are in the top 20% of American society. As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle.

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