Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “richard breen”
Skip side bar filters

  • Class Stratification

    Comparative Perspectives

    by Richard Breen, David B. Rottman ...
    An introductory account of the concept of class stratification, of contemporary approaches to the study of class, and of current debates about its role in the study of society. Definitions and an analysis of different theoretical approaches to class are accompanied by empirical material which compares the class structures of a range of countries and examines social mobility in cross-national ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States

    Edited by Richard Breen, Walter Müller ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    This volume examines the role of education in shaping rates and patterns of intergenerational social mobility among men and women during the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationship between a person's social class and the social class of his or her parents, each chapter looks at a different country—the United States, Sweden, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Deer Hunting with Jesus

    Dispatches from America's Class War

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pinched

    How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It

    by Don Peck ...
    The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly. But history shows us that, ultimately, shocks this severe profoundly alter the character ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Mind at Work

    Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker

    by Mike Rose ...
    Featuring a new preface for the 10th anniversaryAs did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose’s revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters handling complex spatial mathematics, and hairdressers, plumbers, and electricians with their ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?

    Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Eric Kaufmann ...
    Dawkins and Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward. But most people don't read their books before deciding whether to be religious. Instead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate them against the elegant arguments of secularists. And what no one has noticed is that far from declining, the religious are expanding their share ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fair Food

    Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All

    by Oran B Hesterman ...
    A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with the admonition to "eat local or "eat organic."Fair Food is an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Down the Up Escalator

    How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession

    by Barbara Garson ...
    One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Winners and Losers

    by James Long, Marcus Youssef ...
    Two buddies, theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James, sit at a table and pass the time together playing a made-up game in which they name people, places, or things – Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens, their fathers, Goldman Sachs – and debate whether they are successful or not; in other words, whether they are winners or losers. Each friend seeks to defeat the other, and because one ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules?

    State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism

    by Goran Therborn ...
    The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.In his new book, Göran Therborn – author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society – looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal categories of modern system analysis – input mechanisms, processes ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Next Stop, Reloville

    Life Inside America's New Rootless Professional Class

    by Peter T. Kilborn ...
    An eye-opening investigation of the growing phenomenon of "Relos," the professionals for whom relocation is a way of lifeDrive through the newest subdivisions of Atlanta, Dallas, or Denver, and you'll notice an unusual similarity in the layout of the houses, the models of the cars, the pastimes of the stay-at-home moms. But this is not your grandparents' suburbia, "the little houses made of ticky ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shame

    How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country

    by Shelby Steele ...
    The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s -- when we came together as a nation to fight for equality and universal justice -- remains unfulfilled.As Shelby Steele reveals in Shame, the roots of this impasse can be ... Read more

    $18.99 USD