America's growing inequality

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Nozomu Kawamura

This innovative volume is a detailed study of the sociology and society of Japan in its own culture-specific, unique terms. Japan is the only major industrial society to emerge outside the West so far, yet Japanese society is very different from Western society, and must be understood in a different way. The sociological framework developed by the author and presented here does not imitate Western sociology, and provides an important new insight into Japan and the Japanese.

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Eric Marlière

Les transformations qui affectent nos sociétés ont de lourdes conséquences sur les ouvriers des banlieues, souvent immigrés, et plus encore sur leurs enfants: évoluant dans une société hostile, ceux-ci développent de multiples stratégies face à un avenir incertain. A travers une étude ethnographique, réalisée dans une cité HLM d'une ancienne "banlieue rouge", ce livre montre que le discours commun sur ces jeunes ne résiste pas à la pluralité des enjeux sociaux, ni à la complexité des situations. Il atteste aussi qu'une page de l'histoire ouvrière se tourne définitivement.

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Leonard Beeghley

This text examines the structure of stratification in the United States, focusing on the way one's class location influences his or her life opportunities. [The author] uses three themes to illustrate social stratification: How power influences the distribution of resources in the United States, how social structure influences rates of events, and how social psychological factors influence how individuals act on, and react to, the situations in which they find themselves.-

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C.P. Snow

Set in an English provincial town where Lewis Eliot, the narrator, is training for law. George Passant is his friend and mentor, an idealistic lawyer, and a man of principle and courage.