Social Structure Research

From an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits “I’m not any more altruistic than the next guy, I’m just greedy for a differ …

Jubilee: The Emancipation of Life and Love is a narrative modeled on sacred texts, creation stories, and prophetic works. It centers on three primary themes: Life is continuity in the midst of change …

Looks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine relief in the 1840s to advance their own political agendas Famine brought ruin to the Irish countryside in the nineteenth century. In respons …

What does it mean to say that there is a feminist sociology? And how might we engage the full potential of a “feminist sociological imagination”? These questions lie at the heart of Jo Reger’s slim g …

Social Change: Movements, Politics, and Technology is a groundbreaking exploration of social transformation from a conflict theory perspective, offering a deep dive into the historical and sociologic …

A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres–more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2, 000 of the …

Billionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die. They represent a scourge of economic inequality, but h …

In a small Texas neighborhood, an affluent group of mothers has been repeatedly rocked by catastrophic flooding—the 2015 Memorial Day flood, the 2016 Tax Day flood, and sixteen months later, Hurrican …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …

This book presentsa comprehensive but succinct overview of the theoretical background, major concepts, perspectives, and contemporary application and debates in social stratification. It begins by co …