The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged

Friedman, Sam; Laurison, Daniel

ISBN 10: 1447336062 / ISBN 13: 9781447336068

Verlag: Policy Press, 2019

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26378728656

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged
• Verlag: Policy Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1447336062
• ISBN-13: 9781447336068
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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 & Political Science. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Sociology and tweets as @Daniel_Laurison