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  • BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
    LOIS WEIS
    First published in 1985, this book explores the ‘lived culture’ of urban black students in a community college located in a large northeastern city in the United States. The author immersed herself in the institution she was studying for a full academic year, exploring both the direct experiences of education, and the way these experiences were worked over and through the praxi...

    $640.00

  • WORKING CLASS WITHOUT WORK
    LOIS WEIS
    The author wxplores issues of race, class, and gender among white working class youths, and she considers the roles of school and family in the production of the self. The book also examines the working class teens' attitudes toward and readiness for postfeminist thinking and the emerging American New Right. Presenting the first sustained ethnographic investigation of white wor...

    $1,540.00

  • OFF WHITE
    MICHELLE FINE / LOIS WEIS / LINDA POWELL PRUITT / APRIL BURNS
    With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps. ...

    $1,540.00

  • SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATION
    LOIS WEIS
    Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale. Fifteen essays from contributors representing the US, Europe, China, Latin America and other regions offer an unparralleled examination of how social class differences are made and e...

    $1,340.00

  • THE WAY CLASS WORKS
    LOIS WEIS
    Since the 1980s, the relationship between social class and education has been overshadowed by scholarship more generally targeting issues of race, gender, and representation. Today, with the global economy deeply immersed in social inequalities, there is pressing need for serious class-based analyses of schooling, family life and social structure. The Way Class Works is a colle...

    $1,280.00

  • CLASS REUNION
    LOIS WEIS
    Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work.In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who ar...

    $1,540.00

  • WORKING METHOD
    LOIS WEIS / MICHELLE FINE
    Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research. ...

    $1,460.00

  • CLASS WARFARE
    LOIS WEIS / KRISTIN CIPOLLONE / HEATHER JENKINS
    Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front o...

    $608.67