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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Who Are These People? -- Chapter 2: The Migration -- Chapter 3: The Clans in the Hills -- Chapter 4: The Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5: Cedar and Survival -- Chapter 6: Fencing the West -- Chapter 7: The Life of a Cedar Chopper -- Chapter 8: So Close, Yet So Far Away -- Chapter 9: The Demise of the Cedar Choppers -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The book introduces sociology's perpetual debates: the senses in which its methods can be scientific; the relationship between theory and research; and the role of sociology in society. It stresses how sociology addresses questions that are simply not posed elsewhere. The answers consistently challenge everyday common sense and the views of the world offered by politicians and the media.Succinct and comprehensive, this book welcomes and challenges sociology students

Britain is one of the most unequal countries in the western world: the richest one per cent own a vast proportion of the wealth, while both the pay gap and spending habits remain incredibly divisive. How do such divisions reflect contemporary ideas of class? In what way does economic life affect individuals and social relationships? What are the implications for society as a whole? This thoroughly revised second edition of Class in Contemporary Britain uses class theory to interrogate and explain patterns and trends in economic inequalities, and to explore their consequences from a sociologica

Abstract This paper argues the case for viewing a country's transition regime as a totality in which different career steps and routes assign significance and value to one another. Following the destruction of major sections of Britain's transition regime in the 1970s and 1980s, the paper explains how the regime has subsequently been reconstructed following the 1988 Education Reform Act, replacing the vocational education and training schemes of the 1980s with government-supported apprenticeships, almost uninterrupted employment growth since 1992, and the financialization of the corporate economy alongside uncapped expansion of higher education. England's current transition regime keeps rates of youth unemployment and NEET below the European Union averages and delivers the fastest transitions in Europe. However, the reconstructed regime also locks-in features that may well become long-term problems, namely an expensive higher education system which leaves graduates with debts that many do not expect to repay in full, and substantial low wage, low skill, low productivity sectors in the economy and workforce.

This paper argues that explanations must start at the end of young people's education-to-work transitions, with employers' recruitment behaviour and preferences, which then govern the content of and recruitment to preceding education and training. Young people themselves exercise agency: this propels their careers forward biographically, but necessarily consolidates opportunity structures (variously called routes, pathways or trajectories) that have been pre-built from above. It is also argued that ultimately the transition regime in every country, and sometimes in each region and business sector, needs to be treated as a unique case study. However, these regimes can be divided into recognisable types which are most easily identified by starting in an economy and its labour markets. Finally, it follows that attempts which start in earlier life, prior to young people entering the labour market, to modify links between social origins and occupational destinations will invariably fail. Effective interventions can be envisaged only by starting at the end of young people's transitions, then thinking backwards.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess whether European sport has been damaged or adapted during the austerity in public sector and consumer spending that has followed the financial crisis of 2008-2009.Design/methodology/approachReview of literature and data.FindingsSport has adapted successfully.Research limitations/implicationsThe overall conclusions will not apply to every sport in every country.Practical implicationsSport flourishes when it adapts to historical trends.Originality/valueUpdates all previous reviews.