Social stratification in Africa. Ed. by A. Tuden and L. Plotnicov
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 1970
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Page : 392 pages
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Author : Arthur Tuden
Publisher : New York : The Free Press ; London : Collier-Macmillan
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
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Author : Lena Kroeker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319621483
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.
Author : Frank Parkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351067265
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.
Author : Lynette Dreyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349101915
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.
Author : Dieter Neubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030171116
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.
Author : Henri J. M. Claessen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110813327
Author : William Arens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3110800098
Author : Abbas Gnamo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004265481
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.
Author : Michael Craton
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1483152073
Roots and Branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies discusses slavery including its history and impact on modern society. Organized into nine chapters, the book first covers slavery in the Americas, and then discusses slavery and its legacy. The first two chapters discuss the dispersion of African population and slavery within Africa, and the third chapter concerns itself with slave plantations. Chapter 4 discusses the Afro-American slave culture, while Chapter 5 covers the relationship between slavery and Protestant ethics. The sixth chapter covers the legacy of slave families in North America, and the next chapter relates slavery and peasantry as a process. Chapter 8 tackles the relationship between race and slavery in the Americas, and the last chapter deals with slavery and underdevelopment. Readers concerned with sociological issues, specifically slavery, will find this book a great source of insights.