Sam Friedman (London School of Economics & Political Science), Daniel Laurison (USA Swarthmore College)

Broschiertes Buch

The Class Ceiling

Why it Pays to be Privileged

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Sam Friedman is Associate 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781447336105
• ISBN-10: 1447336100
• Artikelnr.: 57168878