Abstract
Titles in this highly international set consider every problem of socio-political importance that affected society in the years following the Second World War. This set includes important texts by key social and political theorists including Stanislaw Ossowski, as well as extensive comparative material from China, Palestine, the USA, South Africa and Great Britain. Drawing on important empirical material, titles included here consider in-depth questions of ethnicity, unemployment, immigration, colour prejudice, social mobility, new elites and class formation.
Keywords
PoliticsEthnic groupPrejudice (legal term)Set (abstract data type)Social conflictImmigrationUnemploymentPolitical scienceChinaPolitical economySociologyPalestineGender studiesSocial scienceLawHistoryEconomic growthEconomicsAncient history
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Lewis A. Coser
(1956).
The functions of social conflict.
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