Clases sociales

Sociedad y ciencias sociales / Sociedad y cultura: general / Grupos sociales / Clases sociales (506)

Libros Eliminar filtro Sociedad y ciencias sociales Eliminar filtro Sociedad y cultura: general Eliminar filtro Grupos sociales Eliminar filtro Clases sociales Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • From Priests to Untouchables | Understanding the Caste System | Civilizations of India | Social Studies 6th Grade | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    Use this dedicated book on social studies to better understand the caste system, and how it shaped the civilizations of India. The caste system was a social structure that basically branded citizens for life. It dictated the way of life, as well as the quality of living. Encourage your child to dive deep into the pool of knowledge by understanding one concept after another. Gra...
    Disponible

    29,45 €

  • Life On A Mediaeval Barony
    William Stearns Davis
    Life On A Mediaeval Barony: A Picture Of A Typical Feudal Community In The Thirteenth CenturyThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has be...
    Disponible

    21,89 €

  • Reporting on Poverty
    Kerry Moore
    This book presents an in-depth, systematic investigation of the reporting of poverty in Wales, discussing findings from a two-year research project funded by the ’Exploring the Narrative Coalition’ (a group of 10 Wales-based third sector organisations), the ESRC, and Cardiff University. Examining how poverty news is covered in the English and Welsh languages across broadcast, p...
    Disponible

    17,84 €

  • Adrodd ar Dlodi
    Kerry Moore
    Mae’r llyfr hwn yn cyflwyno ymchwiliad manwl a systematig ar adrodd am dlodi yng Nghymru, gan drafod canfyddiadau prosiect ymchwil dwy flynedd o hyd a ariannwyd gan ’Exploring the Narrative Coalition’ (grŵp o 10 sefydliad trydydd sector sydd wedi’u lleoli yng Nghymru. yr ESRC a Phrifysgol Caerdydd. Gan archwilio sut y mae newyddion am dlodi yn cael sylw gan newyddion darlledu, ...
    Disponible

    17,88 €

  • Ethosism
    Jo M. Sekimonyo / Jo MSekimonyo
    In the global environment of trade and commerce, humankind appears to have given up its natural journey of progression to improve the social order and universally accepted capitalism. But, whilst the richest continue to accumulate vast amounts of wealth, inequality grows and the poorest still live in extreme poverty. This passionate, academic study will go on to present that so...
    Disponible

    22,28 €

  • Ethosism
    Jo M. Sekimonyo / Jo MSekimonyo
    In the global environment of trade and commerce, humankind appears to have given up its natural journey of progression to improve the social order and universally accepted capitalism. But, whilst the richest continue to accumulate vast amounts of wealth, inequality grows and the poorest still live in extreme poverty. This passionate, academic study will go on to present that so...
    Disponible

    39,36 €

  • Disability and Other Human Questions
    Dan Goodley
    Goodley draws on decades of research to argue that disability has much to offer when we contemplate what it means to be human in the 21st Century. He addresses questions such as ’who’s allowed to be human?’; ’are human beings dependent?’; and ’what does it mean to be human in the digital age?’ ...
    Disponible

    35,22 €

  • The Vanishing Indian Upper Class
    Raza Mohammed Khan / Terry Williams
    The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and property dispute, which provides the story with its dramatic tension. The main subjects in...
    Disponible

    68,79 €

  • Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism
    Judith Blau / Reva Blau
    Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century. ...
    Disponible

    42,04 €

  • The History of College Affordability in the United States from Colonial Times to the Cold War
    Thomas Adam
    This book examines how tuition and student loans became an accepted part of college costs in the first half of the twentieth century. The author argues that college was largely free to nineteenth-century college students since local and religious communities, donors, and the state agreed to pay the tuition bill with the expectation that the students would serve society upon gra...
    Disponible

    143,08 €

  • Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
    Ingrid Robeyns
    How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues.Wellb...
    Disponible

    53,37 €

  • Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
    Ingrid Robeyns
    How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues.Wellb...
    Disponible

    67,72 €

  • Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
    Andy Sumner / Lukas Schlogl
    This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ’robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature...
    Disponible

    52,98 €

  • Housing Estates in Europe
    Daniel Baldwin Hess / Maarten van Ham / Tiit Tammaru
    This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood ame...
    Disponible

    82,58 €

  • Housing Estates in Europe
    Daniel Baldwin Hess / Maarten van Ham / Tiit Tammaru
    This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood ame...
    Disponible

    96,94 €

  • Socioeconomics of Agriculture
    Stefan Mann
    This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural sociologists do). Socioeconomic concepts are subsequently used to structure agricul...
    Disponible

    67,64 €

  • Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
    Andy Sumner / Lukas Schlogl
    This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ’robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature...
    Disponible

    67,34 €

  • Socioeconomics of Agriculture
    Stefan Mann
    This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural sociologists do). Socioeconomic concepts are subsequently used to structure agricul...
    Disponible

    53,28 €

  • Trap Street & Dinomania
    Kandinsky
    Dinomania an iguanodon degrades and disappears - except one tooth. Where does it fit in the story of an earth created 6,000 years ago? Trap Street charts 50 years of changing attitudes to ownership and space in London, to ask what home means in 2018. Two critically acclaimed plays by devised theatre company Kandinsky. ...
    Disponible

    12,97 €

  • The Tiny House Movement
    Tracey Harris
    The Tiny House Movement: Challenging Consumer Culture features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, as well as the author’s insights from her fieldwork of living tiny. In it, we learn how the movement is challenging consumerism, overwork, and environmental destruction and facilitating a more meaningful understanding of home. This book highlights...
    Disponible

    54,81 €

  • Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Seventh Edition
    Roberta Fiske-Rusciano
    Through individual stories, essays, poetry, and critical analyses, Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Seventh Edition, introduces issues of race, class, and gender within an interdisciplinary framework. Themes of identity, power, and change are examined from many different perspectives and voices. In addition to its focus on minorities victimized by disc...
    Disponible

    111,11 €

  • Myth of Self-Reliance
    Naohiko Omata
    For many refugees, economic survival in refugee camps is extraordinarily difficult. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative research, this volume challenges the reputation of a 'self-reliant' model given to Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana and sheds light on considerable economic inequality between refugee households.By following the same refugee households over sev...
    Disponible

    38,28 €

  • Rethinking Class and Social Difference
    This volume draws together scholars rethinking social scientific and theoretical approaches to a wide range of forms of social difference and inequality. These include race, nationalism, sexuality, professional classes, domestic employment, digital communication, and uneven economic development ...
    Disponible

    159,43 €

  • Kien Ĉinio?
    Vilhelmo Lutermano
    La ekonomio de Ĉinujo kreskegis en la lastaj jardekoj kaj, spite al la tutmonda krizo pro la koronvirso en 2020, ĝi ree kreskas, kvankam malpli, i.a. pro la tendenco en multaj landoj bremsi aŭ inversigi la ekonomian tutmondiĝon, pro kio Ĉinujo nun orientas al pli forta disvolvado de sia interna ekonomio, strebante al miksita sistemo de produktado kaj komerco, kiu integras la ek...
    Disponible

    12,50 €

  • Culture is bad for you
    Dave O’Brien / Mark Taylor / Orian Brook
    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. ...
    Disponible

    144,35 €

  • Culture is bad for you
    Dave O’Brien / Mark Taylor / Orian Brook
    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. ...
    Disponible

    20,56 €

  • The Hidden History of Monopolies
    Thom Hartmann
    This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.'--from the foreword by Ralph Nader American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same as cancer does in a body, and, like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entir...
    Disponible

    23,94 €

  • Uplift and Empower
    Danielle Hawa Tarigha
    Did you know that over 700 million people live on less than $2 a day?Nearly 10% of the global population struggles to survive 24 hours at a time. Eradicating extreme poverty may seem like a simple issue, but in reality, it’s very complex. In Uplift and Empower: A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation you’ll learn about: The history and context of povert...
    Disponible

    12,44 €

  • American OZ
    Michael Sean Comerford
    The real traveling carnival is behind the scenes, in the pathos of carnival lives. American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You’ll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same way again! Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working shoulder-to-shoulder with the co...
    Disponible

    43,31 €

  • Castes And Tribes Of Southern India (Volume VII)
    Edgar Thurston
    Castes And Tribes Of Southern India (Volume VII): Volume VII-T To Z, Assisted By K. Rangachari, M.A.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work...
    Disponible

    20,84 €