Michèle Lamont on The Sociology of Inequality
“If we come to understand the human value and dignity of people from different backgrounds, we can do a bit to deflect inequality in our everyday interactions,” says Harvard Professor and winner of the 2017 Erasmus Prize Michèle Lamont. Here, she recommends five books that illuminate the sociology of inequality.
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Running with the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
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Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent
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Black Sabbath's Master of Reality
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Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014
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True Norwegian Black Metal
by Peter Beste
The best books on Heavy Metal, recommended by Keith Kahn Harris
The best books on Heavy Metal, recommended by Keith Kahn Harris
Metal music, developed in the sixties and seventies, is notorious for its dark and disturbing imagery and its aggressive sound. But there’s nothing to be afraid of, says sociologist and fan Keith Kahn-Harris: it’s all part of the mythmaking of metal.
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Killing Thinking: The Death of the Universities
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Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures
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The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education
by Andrew McGettigan -
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Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by bell hooks
The best books on Academia, recommended by Les Back
The best books on Academia, recommended by Les Back
Current UK higher education policies, which treat students as consumers, are not only killing thinking but also likely to lead to a financial crisis. And yet, academia is a beautiful vocation, with the power to transform lives year in, year out. University of London professor, Les Back, picks the best books on academia.
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The Almanac of American Politics
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The 480
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The Rational Public
by Benjamin I Page and Robert Y Shapiro -
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Fire on the Prairie: Harold Washington, Chicago Politics, and the Roots of the Obama Presidency
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The Emerging Republican Majority
by Kevin P Phillips
The best books on How Americans Vote, recommended by Andrew Gelman
The best books on Multiculturalism, recommended by Tariq Modood
Critics claim that Muslims don’t fit in with our secular policies but, although Britain may be a secular country, the ways in which we are secular are ways inclusive of religious people, says sociology professor Tariq Modood. He recommends the best books on multiculturalism.