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Bourdieu and Education by Diane Reay
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Specially selected by Diane Reay, this is a collection of innovative and thought-provoking recently published papers that 'use' Bourdieu to put theory into practice in order to understand and analyse... -
Theorizing Social Class and Education Diane Reay 9781032929514
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Theorizing Social Class and Education presents a selection of writing on class analysis within sociology of education as it has evolved over the last decade both in the UK, and internationally... -
Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes Diane Reay 9781447330653
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.99In this book, part of the 21st Century Standpoints series published in association with the British Sociological Association, Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, brings... -
Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes Diane Reay 9781447371205
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86In this substantially revised and updated edition of her bestselling book, Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, examines the benefits and costs of educational success for the... -
Class Work: Mothers' Involvement In Their Children's Primary Schooling Diane Reay 9781857289169
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08This text looks at the ways in which women as mothers are positioned in society in terms of ethnicity, social class and marital status. Using case study material the author expands her assessment to... -
Understanding Learning and Motivation in Youth: Challenging Policy and Practice Noemi Katznelson 9781138048683
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Through interviews with a selection of the most qualified and well-reputed Northern European researchers, Understanding Learning and Motivation in Youth explores, and offers a range of solutions to,... -
Citizen Youth: Culture, Activism, and Agency in a Neoliberal Era by Jacqueline Kennelly 9780230106680
Booksplease Price: £41.36What are the ties that bind the 'good youth citizen' and the youth activist in the twenty-first century? Contemporary young people are encouraged - through education and other cultural sites - to... -
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe: Systemic, Institutional and Subjective Challenges Aina Tarabini 9780367488123
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe analyses educational choices and transitions in eight different European countries/regions and provides an engaging means of considering... -
Social Mobility for the 21st Century: Everyone a Winner? by Steph Lawler
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is reproduced... -
Higher Education and Social Inequalities: University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes by Richard Waller 9781138351998
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and as a way of reproducing social advantage for the better... -
White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling by D. Reay 9780230224018
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children. It... -
White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling by D. Reay 9781137355010
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children. It... -
Education in America by Kimberly A. Goyette 9780520285118
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.30Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social inequality, Kimberly A... -
Privilege, Agency and Affect: Understanding the Production and Effects of Action by C. Maxwell 9781349450961
Booksplease Price: £91.43Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privilege, agency and affect are linked, and where... -
Privilege, Agency and Affect: Understanding the Production and Effects of Action by C. Maxwell 9781137292629
Booksplease Price: £92.04Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privilege, agency and affect are linked, and where... -
Class by Will Atkinson 9781509557189
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public. But what... -
Snobbery David Morgan 9781447340348
Booksplease Price: £12.99Snobbery is a more serious matter than some may think: the arguments around Brexit and Trump show that accusations of snobbery have become part of political discourse and public sentiment, building... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research Dr Garth Stahl 9781350349209
Booksplease Price: £41.36This book is the first international reference work to showcase the diversity of ways of using Bourdieu's sociological toolkit in educational research. Written by scholars based in Australia, Brazil,... -
Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education by Miriam E. David 9780415495424
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and... -
Identity, Social Class and Learning in the ‘Bottom’ Reading Group Jess Anderson 9781032785677
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The common practice of ability-grouped reading in UK schools, often termed guided reading, influences children's sense of identity, feelings and progress as readers. Drawing on a rich ethnographic... -
Race, Gender and Educational Desire: Why black women succeed and fail by Heidi Safia Mirza 9780415448765
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94'This book is a great genealogy of black women's unrecognised contributions within both education and the wide social context. I think it constitutes an important piece of work that is totally... -
Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces by Barbara Pini
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore... -
Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering by W. Atkinson 9781349437016
Booksplease Price: £91.24When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to... -
Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering by W. Atkinson 9781137016379
Booksplease Price: £100.10When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to... -
Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success Garth Stahl 9780367878610
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and strategies embedded in charter school management organizations (CMOs), as well as how these practices influence... -
Access to Inequality: Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education by Amy E. Stich 9780739197721
Booksplease Price: £46.74Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction... -
Class in the New Millennium: The Structure, Homologies and Experience of the British Social Space by Will Atkinson 9780367876975
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Class in the New Millennium paints a fresh and comprehensive picture of social class in Britain today. Anchored in a broad repertoire of methods and pursuing a distinctive theoretical agenda, it not... -
Fitting into Place?: Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities by Yvette Taylor
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Fitting into Place adopts a multi-dimensional interdisciplinary approach to explore shifting geographies and temporalities that re-constitute 'city publics' - and the place of the 'public... -
Time to Save Democracy: How to Govern Ourselves in the Age of Anti-Politics Henry Tam (Lecturer (retired), University of Cambridge) 9781447338246
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.03To govern ourselves or not to? This is the existential question of politics. With the rise of distrust, alienation, and extremism, it is all the more difficult to secure democratic self-rule when... -
Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: The Degree Generation by Ann-Marie Bathmaker 9781137534804
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a... -
Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.74'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary MantelA Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018... -
Practice Methodologies in Education Research Julianne Lynch 9781032088426
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Practice Methodologies in Education Research offers a fresh approach to researching practice in education. Addressing a major gap in research methodology scholarship, it highlights how integral... -
Bourdieu: The Next Generation: The Development of Bourdieu's Intellectual Heritage in Contemporary UK Sociology Jenny Thatcher 9781138596351
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking... -
Educational Diversity: The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects by Yvette Taylor 9780230293427
Booksplease Price: £92.24This collection explores the relationship between new equality regimes and continued societal inequalities, exploring change, ambivalence and resistance specifically in relation to compulsory and... -
Socializing Inequality: Class, Culture and Cognition in Early Childhood Dieter Vandebroeck 9781041119586
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book examines the processes through which children effectively 'inherit' their position in the social world.It asks: * How does class inequality affect one of the most formative periods in human... -
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Amplified Advantage: Going to a "Good" College in an Era of Inequality by Allison L Hurst 9781498589673
Booksplease Price: £40.79Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today's small liberal arts colleges through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It demonstrates how these... -
The End of Aspiration?: Social Mobility and Our Children's Fading Prospects by Duncan Exley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Why is it getting harder to secure a job that matches our qualifications, buy a home of our own and achieve financial stability? Underprivileged people have always faced barriers, but people from... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged Sam Friedman (London School of Economics & Political Science) 9781447336105
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Politicians 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... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged Sam Friedman (London School of Economics & Political Science) 9781447336068
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.45Politicians 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... -
Sociology, Work and Organisations: A Global Context Brian McDonough 9781032323862
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.89This accessible edited collection provides global context for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying the sociology of work and organisations. Composed of short, example-led chapters, this...