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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. |
| Description: | xix, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5999831 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Section I. Introduction
- 1. An Introduction to 'Social Divisions'
- What are 'social divisions'?
- Social divisions as a way of thinking about society
- Social divisions as 'social rules'
- Social divisions in a post-modern world?
- The complexity of social divisions
- The plan of the book
- Section II. Three Core Social Divisions
- 2. Class and Stratification
- Conceptualising class and stratification
- Differentiating class, 'status' and 'authority'
- Occupations and social stratification
- Class societies
- Mapping classes
- Changing class relations
- Class and life chances in contemporary society
- Subordinate classes
- The subordinate classes today
- Intermediate classes
- Advantaged classes
- Conclusion
- 3. Gender
- Changes in gender relations?
- Explaining gender divisions
- Gender and power
- Gender and education
- Gender, 'work' and domestic labour
- Gender and the labour market
- Explanations of women's labour market participation
- Gender, poverty and the family
- Poverty and older women
- Conclusion
- 4. Ethnicity
- Some conceptual ground-clearing
- Ethnic differences in Britain: some problems of measurement
- Minority ethnic groups in Britain
- Employment, unemployment and poverty
- Explaining ethnic disadvantage - discrimination
- Ethnic inequalities in Britain: changing social divisions and identities
- Understanding social divisions, difference and diversity
- Section III. Other Major Social Divisions
- 5. Religion
- The persistence of religious divisions
- Cultural bias and the law
- The erosion of Catholic subculture
- Cultural racism: the case of Islamophobia
- 'Religion' as a troublesome category
- 6. National Identity
- Making Britain
- Making British citizens
- Citizens and the nation-state
- Being British today
- 7. Elites
- The origins of elite theory
- The development of elite theory
- Education and elites in Britain
- State elites
- Concluding observations
- 8. Age and Old Age
- Age and stratification: age groups, chronological age, age classes
- The changing historical pattern of life-courses
- The interconnection of age and social change
- Changing demography
- The social conditions of older people
- Social policy issues: everybody needs pensions
- Ageism and the cultural construction of old age
- Age as a social division
- 9. Childhood
- Childhood as socially constructed
- Power and dependence
- Risk, risk anxiety and the construction of childhood
- Differences among children
- 10. Sexuality
- Sexuality, gender and institutionalised heterosexuality
- The critique of essentialism
- The social construction of sexuality
- A sexualised culture?
- Heterosexuality as a gendered sexual practice
- Heterosexuality as institution
- Conclusion: sexual inequality and commodity culture
- 11. Disability
- Competing definitions
- Individualism
- The social construction of disability
- Experiencing disability: economic disadvantage
- Experiencing disability: discriminatory social barriers
- Structure, identity and action
- Disability and social divisions
- Section IV. The Interplay of Social Divisions
- 12. Poverty
- What is poverty?
- 'Luxuries' and the bare 'necessities' of life
- Measuring poverty
- Temporal issues in poverty measurement
- Material disadvantage and consumption
- Poverty in Britain today
- Differential risks of poverty: ethnicity; gender; children
- Conclusion
- 13. Community
- The nature of community
- Communities and change
- The dynamics of community living
- Recent conceptual developments and trends
- Conclusion
- 14. Health
- Defining health and illness
- Asking the 'patient'
- Explaining patterns of health
- Health inequalities and their explanations
- Health inequalities and other social divisions
- Conclusion
- Section V. Conclusions
- 15. Social Divisions as a Sociological Perspective
- A definition of 'social divisions'
- Definitions as differentiation
- Social divisions and social cohesion
- Social divisions as a distinctive theoretical perspective
- Social divisions and sociology
- Bibliography
- Index
