Class Issues

Author : Amitava Kumar
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814746977
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Issues written by Amitava Kumar and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class Issues offers a plan for the construction of an alternative public sphere in the rapidly changing space of the academic classroom."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Benjamin I. Page
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226644561
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class War? written by Benjamin I. Page and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America’s fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs contend, ring false. In Class War? they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably. At every income level and in both major political parties, majorities embrace conservative egalitarianism—a philosophy that prizes individualism and self-reliance as well as public intervention to help Americans pursue these ideals on a level playing field. Drawing on hundreds of opinion studies spanning more than seventy years, including a new comprehensive survey, Page and Jacobs reveal that this worldview translates to broad support for policies aimed at narrowing the gap between rich and poor and creating genuine opportunity for all. They find, for example, that across economic, geographical, and ideological lines, most Americans support higher minimum wages, improved public education, wider access to universal health insurance coverage, and the use of tax dollars to fund these programs. In this surprising and heartening assessment, Page and Jacobs provide our new administration with a popular mandate to combat the economic inequity that plagues our nation.

Author : Louise Archer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113447492X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education and Social Class written by Louise Archer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built on research findings and data from a wide variety of empirical and attitudinal sources, this book raises timely issues about elitism, expansion, quality and access in higher education.

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459717
Total Pages : 2056 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Issues in America written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States today are covered in this eight-volume set: from abortion and adoption to capital punishment and corporate crime; from obesity and organized crime to sweatshops and xenophobia.

Author : CQ Researcher,
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 1412979676
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issues in Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class written by CQ Researcher, and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Obama Presidency: Can Barack Obama Deliver the Change He Promises?

Author : Richard Reeves
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815735499
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream Hoarders written by Richard Reeves and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America. In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent—we are the good guys. Not so, argues Reeves. The real class divide is not between the upper class and the upper middle class: it is between the upper middle class and everyone else. The separation of the upper middle class from everyone else is both economic and social, and the practice of “opportunity hoarding”—gaining exclusive access to scarce resources—is especially prevalent among parents who want to perpetuate privilege to the benefit of their children. While many families believe this is just good parenting, it is actually hurting others by reducing their chances of securing these opportunities. There is a glass floor created for each affluent child helped by his or her wealthy, stable family. That glass floor is a glass ceiling for another child. Throughout Dream Hoarders, Reeves explores the creation and perpetuation of opportunity hoarding, and what should be done to stop it, including controversial solutions such as ending legacy admissions to school. He offers specific steps toward reducing inequality and asks the upper middle class to pay for it. Convinced of their merit, members of the upper middle class believes they are entitled to those tax breaks and hoarded opportunities. After all, they aren't the 1 percent. The national obsession with the super rich allows the upper middle class to convince themselves that they are just like the rest of America. In Dream Hoarders, Reeves argues that in many ways, they are worse, and that changes in policy and social conscience are the only way to fix the broken system.

Author : Friedman, Sam
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447336100
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Class Ceiling written by Friedman, Sam and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important best-selling book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Friedman and Laurison show that a powerful ‘class pay gap’ exists in Britain’s elite occupations. Even when those from working-class backgrounds make it into prestigious jobs, they earn, on average, 16% less than colleagues from privileged backgrounds. But why is this the case? . Drawing on 175 interviews across four case studies - television, accountancy, architecture, and acting – they explore the complex barriers facing the upwardly mobile. This is a rich, ambitious book that demands we take seriously not just the glass but also the class ceiling.

Author : Claudia D. Johnson
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737742589
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issues of Class in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice written by Claudia D. Johnson and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents essays that examine class issues in "Pride and Prejudice," including levels of rank, social restrictions, male power, and marriages that cross class lines.

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780737738995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By marrying the disciplines of sociology and literature, the Social Issues in Literature series meets the need for materials supporting curriculum integration. Each title in this distinctive new series examines an important literary work through the lens of a major social issue. Focusing on the most-studied titles in high school curricula, each volume offers unique perspectives on both the work and the social issue that it explores.

Author : Pankaj Mishra
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374607532
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Run and Hide written by Pankaj Mishra and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pankaj Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man’s humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth—what it means on a human level, and what it costs. Run and Hide is a spectacular, illuminating work of fiction." —Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach Growing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, enabled through great sacrifice by his low-caste parents, is seemingly his golden ticket out of a life plagued by everyday cruelties and deprivations. At the predominantly male campus, he meets two students from similar backgrounds. Unlike Arun—scarred by his childhood, and an uneasy interloper among go-getters—they possess the sheer will and confidence to break through merciless social barriers. The alumni of IIT eventually go on to become the financial wizards of their generation, working hard and playing hard from East Hampton to Tuscany—the beneficiaries of unprecedented financial and sexual freedom. But while his friends play out Gatsby-style fantasies, Arun fails to leverage his elite education for social capital. He decides to pursue the writerly life, retreating to a small village in the Himalayas with his aging mother. Arun’s modest idyll is one day disrupted by the arrival of a young woman named Alia, who is writing an exposé of his former classmates. Alia, beautiful and sophisticated, draws Arun back to the prospering world where he must be someone else if he is to belong. When he is implicated in a terrible act of violence committed by his closest friend from IIT, Arun will have to reckon with the person he has become. Run and Hide is Pankaj Mishra’s powerful story of achieving material progress at great moral and emotional cost. It is also the story of a changing country and global order, and the inequities of class and gender that map onto our most intimate relationships.