Articles

Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of upper-class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have-art, architecture, household... 
Middle class | Civilization | Social classes | Rome | Social life and customs

In this study of the school system of an Indiana town, Ellen Brantlinger studies educational expectations within segments of the middle class that have fairly... 
Educational sociology | Middle class | Students | Social stratification | Social conditions | Sociology, Social Studies | Education Policy & Politics | Sociology of Education | Social stratification - United States

To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities,... 
Middle class | Social classes | Civilization, Modern | History | Political aspects | Europe, Western | Politics and culture

Nannies | Cleaning personnel | Motherhood | Sex role | Domestics

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 
History | Recreation | Leisure | Social & Cultural History | Historical Sociology

Childcare is a topic that is frequently in the media spotlight and continues to spark heated debate in the UK and around the world. This book presents an... 
Day care centers | Sex role | Government policy | Middle class families | Child care services | Work and family | Sociology, Social Studies | Education Policy | Sociology of Education | Equality & Human Rights | Sex role - England - London

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.. 
Women | Working class women | Social classes | Education | Employment | Great Britain Social conditions | Sociology, Social Studies | Education (Higher)

Middle class | Working class | Social life and customs | Social conditions

As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle... 
Case studies | 1975 | Middle class | Social status | Race identity | United States | Sociology | African Americans | Washington Region | Social conditions | Race relations

This important new book is a comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It... 
Recruiting | Employees | Great Britain | Social aspects | Social surveys | Education | Social mobility | Parents

This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new... 
Middle class | Social change | India Social conditions | Urban Studies | Asian Studies | Sociology & Social Policy | Middle class - India - Attitudes

History | Middle class

"How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents'... 
Discrimination in education | Middle class | Educational sociology | Social classes | African American families | Education | African Americans | Economic aspects | Parent participation | Economic conditions | Social aspects | Social conditions | African American children | Geography | Sociology of Education | Multicultural Education | Education Policy | United States

This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data... 
Economic aspects | Middle class | Social aspects | Globalization | Development Studies | Asian Culture & Society | Political & Economic Anthropology | Anthropology | Gender | Gender Studies - Soc Sci | India (studies of) | Anthropology - Soc Sci | Regional Anthropology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | South Asian Studies | Urban Studies | Asian Studies | Globalization - Social aspects - India | Neoliberalism

History | Middle class

"In this groundbreaking investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth'. Moving through... 
Press coverage | Working class | Public opinion | Great Britain Economic conditions | Social conditions

Middle class | United States Economic conditions | United States Economic policy | Economic conditions | Working class

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although... 
Middle class | Income distribution | Consumption (Economics) | United States | Economic aspects | Equality | Economic conditions | Sociology | Middle class - Economic conditions | Yoga | Hatha yoga