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Social differences and divisions / edited by Peter Braham and Linda Janes ; [written and produced by The Open University].

Contributor(s): Braham, Peter | Janes, Linda | Open University.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Sociology and society.Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell, 2002Description: xxii, 397 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0631233091(hbk.); 0631233105(pbk.).Subject(s): Social groups | Group identity | Social stratificationDDC classification: 305
Contents:
'Place, lifecycle and social divisions' / Linda Janes and Gerry Mooney -- 'Social exclusion and class analysis' / Mike Savage -- 'Understanding gender divisions: feminist perspectives' / Linda Janes -- 'Race, power and knowledge' / Karim Murji -- 'Citizenship' / Bryan S. Turner -- 'Social justice' / Peter Braham -- 'Education, housing and social justice' / Peter Braham and Norma Sherratt.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This text introduces students to the main forms of social division and difference that characterise contemporary society.

Introduces sociological perspectives on social divisions and differences.
Draws on examples mainly 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.
Forms part of a four-book series on sociology and society.

For more information about this book and the Sociology & Society series, visit the accompanying website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ou

DD201 Book 2 - back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Place, lifecycle and social divisions' / Linda Janes and Gerry Mooney -- 'Social exclusion and class analysis' / Mike Savage -- 'Understanding gender divisions: feminist perspectives' / Linda Janes -- 'Race, power and knowledge' / Karim Murji -- 'Citizenship' / Bryan S. Turner -- 'Social justice' / Peter Braham -- 'Education, housing and social justice' / Peter Braham and Norma Sherratt.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Social differences and divisions: introduction
  • Chapter 1 & ndash; Place, lifestyle and social divisions
  • Chapter 2 & ndash; Social exclusion and class analysis
  • Chapter 3 & ndash; Understanding gender divisions: feminist perspectives
  • Chapter 4 & ndash; Race, power and knowledge
  • Chapter 5 & ndash; Citizenship
  • Chapter 6 & ndash; Social Justice
  • Chapter 7 & ndash; Education, housing and social justice
  • Readings in social differences and divisions
  • Class, status, party (1922)
  • Caste and class (1964)
  • Only contradictions on offer: feminism at the millennium (1999)
  • Social class and underclass in Britain and the USA (1997)
  • Immigrant workers and class structure in western Europe (1973)
  • Value problems of welfare capitalism (1972)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Braham is Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University. He is the co-editor of Political and Economic Forms of Modernity (1992), Racism and Antiracism (1992), Media, Knowledge and Power (1986) and Discrimination and Disadvantage: The Experience of Black Workers (1981).

Linda Janes is Staff Tutor in Social Sciences at The Open University. She is the co-editor of The Gendered Cyborg (2000), Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (1997), and Imagining Women (1992).