Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity (Sociology for a Changing World)

Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity (Sociology for a Changing World)

by Alan Warde (Author), Mike Savage (Author), KevinWard (Author)

Synopsis

The long-awaited second edition of this highly successful text on urban sociology retains the distinctive character and focus of the original, while taking fully into account recent theoretical debates and new empirical research. Expanded and thoroughly revised throughout, it incorporates the substantial new literature on urban inequality, urban culture, urban politics and globalization. It thus offers a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute account of its subject, ideal for study purposes at undergraduate level and beyond.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 25 Nov 2002

ISBN 10: 0333971604
ISBN 13: 9780333971604

Author Bio
MIKE SAVAGE is Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Sociology at University of Manchester. His most recent book is Social Change and Class Cultures in Contemporary Britain (Open University Press).

ALAN WARDE is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition at the University of Manchester. His many books include Eating Out: Social Diffentiation, Consumption and Pleasure with L Martens, Consumption Food and Taste: Culinary Antimonies and Commodity Culture, and Contemporary British Society (third edition) with Nicholas Abercrombie et al.

KEVIN WARD is Lecturer in the School of Geography at the University of Manchester.