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Key Features:
- Introduces sociological perspectives
on social divisions and differences
- Draws on a wide range of examples
from the UK and the US
- Uses ideas of citizenship and social
justice to analyse social divisions
- Looks at the inter-relationship between
various social divisions and differences
- Contains numerous activities, readings
and illustrations to encourage students to think laterally
around the subject area
- Throughout the book, key terms and
names are highlighted to aid stud
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Why will students engage with this
book?
This text introduces students to the main forms of social division
and difference that characterise contemporary societies. Drawing
on a wide range of examples from the UK and US, the authors consider
a series of challenging questions relating to the primary divisions
of class, gender, 'race' and ethnicity.
Throughout the book, students are guided
through the major theoretical approaches to social stratification
and given the opportunity to use and critically assess the results
of relevant social surveys and statistics.
Why will academics enjoy working with
this book?
Social Differences and Divisions explores key issues of class,
gender, 'race' and ethnicity at length. Unusually, it also addresses
differences relating to place, particularly inequalities in housing
and education, reviewing them in the innovative context of current
debates about citizenship and social justice.
Although each chapter concentrates on
specific social categories or sites of difference, the text as a
whole is connected by its focus on the inter-relationship between
differences and divisions in the complex construction of social
identities.
Each chapter is accompanied by a set of
extracts from key, previously published, readings that are relevant
to the chapter topic. At the end of the book you will also find
the following set of 'generic' readings on issues of social differences
and divisions:
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels:
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
- Max Weber: Class, status, party (1922)
- Gunnar Myrdal: Caste and class (1964)
- Lynne Segal: Only contradictions
on offer: feminism at the millennium (1999)
- Gordon Marshall: Social class and
underclass in Britain and the USA (1997)
- Stephen Castles and Godula Kosack:
Immigrant workers and class structure in western Europe (1973)
- T. H. Marshall: Value problems of
welfare capitalism (1972)
These reading have been selected for their
broader relevance to the overall themes of the book, exemplifying
both historically important writing as well as current approaches.
Who will benefit from this book?
Social Differences and Divisions will particularly benefit
undergraduate students of sociology focusing on questions of class,
gender and ethnicity.
Publication details:
| Publication date: |
March 2002 |
| Details: |
360 pages 246 x 189 mm / 7.5 x 9.75 in |
| Paperback: |
9780631233107 £15.99 / $39.95 |
| Hardback: |
9780631233091 £55.00 / $74.95 |
Desk Copies
If you would like to receive a complimentary examination copy
of the book, and teach a relevant course with over 12 students,
simply send an email to Louise
Cooper .
Please state the book title, your name,
address and your course details, and we would be delighted to send
you a copy.
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