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Caught in the middle : contradictions in the lives of sociologists from working-class backgrounds / Michael D. Grimes and Joan M. Morris.
LIBRA HM22.U5 G76 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grimes, Michael D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociologists--United States--Attitudes.
- Sociologists.
- Sociologists--Education--United States.
- Sociologists--United States--Economic conditions.
- Working class--United States.
- Working class.
- Economic conditions.
- Education.
- United States.
- Social mobility--United States.
- Social mobility.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 234 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1997.
- Summary:
- Traces the personal and professional lives of a group of sociologists from working-class backgrounds, and shows that despite their membership in the academy, their adaptation to the upper-middle-class world of academia is inhibited by class cultural differences.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 027595711X
- OCLC:
- 36301538
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