Social stratification in Africa. Ed. by A. Tuden and L. Plotnicov
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1970
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Social Stratification in Africa
Author : Arthur Tuden
Publisher : New York : The Free Press ; London : Collier-Macmillan
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
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Middle Classes in Africa
Author : Lena Kroeker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319621483
Book Description
This volume challenges the concept of the ‘new African middle class’ with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on the rise, but models of class based on experiences from other regions of the world cannot be easily transferred to the African continent. Empirical contributions, drawn from a diverse range of contexts, address both African histories of class formation and the political roles of the continent’s middle classes, and also examine the important interdependencies that cut across inter-generational, urban-rural and class divides. This thought-provoking book argues emphatically for a revision of common notions of the 'middle class', and for the inclusion of insights 'from the South' into the global debate on class. Middle Classes in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as NGOs and policy makers with an interest in African societies.
The Social Analysis of Class Structure
Author : Frank Parkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351067265
Book Description
Originally published in 1974, The Social Analysis of Class Structure is an edited collection addressing class formation and class relations in industrial society. The range and variety of the contributions provide a useful guide to the central concerns of British sociology in the 1970s. Encompassing general theorizing and empirical investigation, the book examines the treatment of crucial issues of the day, such as the relationships between race and class formation, and sexual subordination, as well addressing historical questions such as the Victorian labour aristocracy and the incorporation of the working class.
A Century of Change in Eastern Africa
Author : William Arens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3110800098
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Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa
Author : Dieter Neubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030171116
Book Description
This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored. For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies – and in other societies of the world – we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.
Modern African Elite of South Africa
Author : Lynette Dreyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349101915
Book Description
A profile of the lives of 60 eminent Black Africans who have reached the top of their professions and social hierarchy in South African society despite the political system. It argues that White fears of a Black government destroying the economy of South Africa are unfounded.
Slavery in Africa
Author : Suzanne Miers
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299073343
Book Description
This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).
The Early State
Author : Henri J. M. Claessen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110813327
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Conquest and Resistance in the Ethiopian Empire, 1880 - 1974
Author : Abbas Gnamo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004265481
Book Description
This work examines the philosophical origins of Oromo egalitarian and democratic thoughts and practice, the Gadaa-Qaalluu system, kinship organization, the introduction and spread of Islam and the consequent socio-cultural change. It sheds light on the advent of the Ethiopian empire under Menelik II, its conquests and Arsi Oromo fierce resistance (1880-1900), the nature and legacy of Ethiopian imperial polity, centre-periphery relations, feudal political economy and its impacts on the newly conquered regions with a focus on Arsi Oromo country. The book also analyzes the root causes of the national political crisis including, but not limited to, the attempts at transforming the empire-state to a nation-state around a single culture, contested definition of national identity and state legitimacy, grievance narratives, uprisings, the birth and development of competing nationalisms as well as the limitations of the current ethnic federalism to address the national question in Ethiopia.
