'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary Mantel "

How people become "class traitors" One is not born a worker or a boss. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted fo

The experience of shifting from one social class to another—from a dominated group to a dominant group—raises the question of how the upwardly mobile person

How the relationships between education and outer space have developed historically is exemplified in an incisive way by the decades that followed the "Sputnik

This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance