Exploring the complexities of family dynamics, this book examines the intersection of personal and societal views on family, particularly in the context of child abuse prevention. It critiques how professional narratives often depict families in rigid, outdated frameworks, influenced by social policies and media portrayals. The author highlights the disproportionate impact of these regulatory systems on impoverished families, especially mothers, who are tasked with maintaining internal boundaries. The work invites readers to reconsider the implications of these administrative constructs on family life.
Well-researched and accessible, this book serves as a valuable contribution to the literature on race and social research. It addresses critical themes and provides insights that are both useful and necessary for understanding contemporary issues related to ethnicity and race.
London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead? To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey, via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair and elsewhere. Her walks reveal how the wealthy shape the capital in their image, creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments. A move behind closed doors takes us ever further into the dark heart of the plutocratic city, from multimillion-pound mansions to high-end hotels and gentlemen's clubs. Along the way we meet a wide and wickedly entertaining cast of millionaires, billionaires and those who serve them: bankers, aristocrats, tech tycoons, Conservative party donors, butlers, bodyguards, divorce lawyers and many, many more. By turns jaw-dropping, enraging and enlightening, Serious Money explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to, revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it when the plutocrat's recompense - a life of unlimited luxury - ultimately proves hollow. It is a powerful reminder us that it is not just the super-rich who get to make the city: we make it too, and could demand something different. Because serious money is good for no one - not even the rich. -- Provided by publisher
