Showing results for "Social Class" in Anthropology

All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences. The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual...

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their lives and loves, their foibles and eccentricities. And we entertain the strong suspicion that, while they may be fellow citizens, they are very far from being People Like Us. In Heirs and Graces Eleanor Doughty draws on her unparalleled access to a bewildering range of dukes, duchesses, earls and others to create a vivid picture of who they are and how they tick.

In 21st century Britain, what does it mean to be working class? This book asks 24 working class writers to examine the issue as it relates to them. Examining representation, literature, sexuality, gender, art, employment, poverty, childhood, culture and politics, this book is a broad and firsthand account of what it means to be drawn from the bottom of Britain's archaic but persistent class structure.

Un viaggio eccezionale nell'Italia degli anni ottanta, attraverso i luoghi e le esperienze degli operai della Fiat. Un reportage che va oltre l'universo metallico delle grandi fabbriche automobilistiche, qui descritte in "presa diretta", per raccontare la vita nei casermoni di periferia, le metamorfosi avvenute nei paesini meridionali degli emigranti, gli operai divisi tra robot e lavoro contadino, le patetiche gite aziendali in cui si ricerca la socialità un tempo vissuta nel sindacato.