The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged - Brossura

Friedman, Sam

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ISBN 10: 1447336100 ISBN 13: 9781447336105

Casa editrice: Policy Press, 2020

Riassunto

This important book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Drawing on 200 interviews across four case studies - television, accountancy, architecture, and acting – it explores the complex barriers facing the upwardly mobile.

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Sam Friedman is associate professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and a commissioner at the Social Mobility Commission. He is cofounder of the Stratification and Culture Research Network. Daniel Laurison is assistant professor at Swarthmore College. Previously he was at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 
 

Sam Friedman is Professor in Sociology, London School of Economics and a Commissioner at the Social Mobility Commission. He has published widely on social class, social mobility and elites. He is the author of Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a ‘Good’ Sense of Humour (Routledge 2014) and the co-author of Social Class in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2015). He tweets as @SamFriedmanSoc

Daniel Laurison is Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College, USA. Previously he was at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Sociology and tweets as @Daniel_Laurison

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Policy Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1447336100
• ISBN 13: 9781447336105
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile