Youth and Social Class: Enduring Inequality in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand

by Alan France and Steven Roberts

This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central to understanding young people's lives in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Their analysis recognises that in periods of social change, class relationships and processes can and do get reconfigured, but by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, they show that class, while being...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137578289
• ISBN13: 9781137578280
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"