This collection of work has been produced as a result of a major 1994 UK seminar on the
measurement and analysis of social exclusion, sponsored by the European Commission …

How do young people get by in hard times and hard places? Have they become a'lost
generation'disconnected from society's mainstream? Do popular ideas about social …

This book provides an authoritative and much needed critical review of British and American
debates about the underclass, set in the context of historical material and policy …

Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families
for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a newservant'class. Examining the …

This accessible book takes a fresh and original approach to the concept of youth, placing
changes in the social construction of 'youth'within a more general story of the rise and fall of …

This book constitutes the first concerted attempt by British social scientists to grapple with the
idea of the underclass in relationship to contemporary youth. It considers both how youth as …

Rational choice could plausibly lay claim to being the grand theory of high modernity. Its
metanarrative is fundamentally about the progressive rationalization of the West and then …

Critique of Entrepreneurship Page 1 Critique of Entrepreneurship People and Policy Peter
Armstrong Page 2 Critique of Entrepreneurship Page 3 Other books by Peter Armstrong …

In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on
issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the …

This article reviews the arguments about the possible existence of a spatially segregated
underclass in urban industrial contexts in Britain, with reference to the propositions about the …