This is a useful outline, or footnotes, to then look into sociological history of class in Britain (where the authors seem to be based) and America (which is related, so included.) The small amount of text very briefly describes a sociologist's or economist's field of study. In one or two sentences, that's how brief. There is usually an edited quote and a drawing of the researcher (probably my favorite part, very nice.) That's it. Then we move on. Most of the page is illustrations, and while occasionally they can take the place of some words (certainly not worth 1,000) they are often used as clip art across multiple sections. That can make connections across different thinkers, but those connections could have been made so much clearer. Pages weren't drawn individually, the illustrations were copy-pasted and resized so the lines were of different weight across and within pages. It looked lazy.
The structure of the book reminds me of elementary school aged books, but the ideas here seem at least high school, probably college (so much Marx.) If you are curious about the subject but have no idea where to begin this can give you some names to look into further... though not in it's own bibliography, another obvious lack in this book. Mostly I would recommend skipping the book, though not necessarily the authors entirely.
by Laura Harvey, Sarah Leaney, illustrated by Danny Noble
2 stars
This is a useful outline, or footnotes, to then look into sociological history of class in Britain (where the authors seem to be based) and America (which is related, so included.) The small amount of text very briefly describes a sociologist's or economist's field of study. In one or two sentences, that's how brief. There is usually an edited quote and a drawing of the researcher (probably my favorite part, very nice.) That's it. Then we move on. Most of the page is illustrations, and while occasionally they can take the place of some words (certainly not worth 1,000) they are often used as clip art across multiple sections. That can make connections across different thinkers, but those connections could have been made so much clearer. Pages weren't drawn individually, the illustrations were copy-pasted and resized so the lines were of different weight across and within pages. It looked lazy.
The structure of the book reminds me of elementary school aged books, but the ideas here seem at least high school, probably college (so much Marx.) If you are curious about the subject but have no idea where to begin this can give you some names to look into further... though not in it's own bibliography, another obvious lack in this book. Mostly I would recommend skipping the book, though not necessarily the authors entirely.