The Contemporary British Society Reader

by Abercrombie, Nicholas; Warde, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780745622620
• ISBN10: 0745622623
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

This is the exciting new reader to the bestselling textbook Contemporary British Society.

Author Biography

Nicholas Abercrombie is Professor of Sociology and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Lancaster. Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Preface: How to use this book	ix
Acknowledgements	xiv
Changing Britain	1	(12)
Part I Globalization	13	(40)
The Global Economy	15	(8)
Peter Dicken
Local Interpretations of Global Music	23	(10)
Andy Bennett
The Framing of Scottish National Identity	33	(12)
Frank Bechhofer
David McCrone
Richard Kiely
Robert Stewart
Local and Global Political Protest	45	(8)
Sasha Roseneil
Part II Social Divisions	53	(82)
The Restructuring of Work since the 1980s	55	(13)
Duncan Gallie
Michael White
Yuan Cheng
Mark Tomlinson
The Persistence of Class Inequalities	68	(12)
John Westergaard
The Condition of the Contemporary Middle Classes	80	(9)
Mike Savage
In Search of a British Underclass	89	(10)
Fiona Devine
Women at Work in the City of London	99	(9)
Linda McDowell
Work, Gender and Unemployment	108	(10)
Lydia Morris
Women Avoiding being Working Class	118	(8)
Beverley Skeggs
Racial Harassment	126	(9)
Satnam Virdee
Part III Family and Household	135	(58)
Changing Families	137	(10)
Sarah Irwin
Divorce and the New Family	147	(12)
Carol Smart
British Youth Cultures in the 1990s	159	(11)
Ken Roberts
Family Relationships and Family Responsibilities	170	(8)
Janet Finch
Jennifer Mason
The Local Networks of the Elderly	178	(15)
Chris Phillipson
Miriam Bernard
Judith Phillips
Jim Ogg
Part IV Fragmentary Cultures	193	(58)
The Dance Music Industry	195	(10)
David Hesmondhalgh
The Transformation in the British Press	205	(5)
Brian McNair
Food and Class	210	(11)
Alan Warde
The Relationship between Television and Real Life in a London Punjabi Community	221	(9)
Marie Gillespie
Shopping and the Work of Femininity	230	(11)
Celia Lury
Consumption, Tribes and Identity	241	(10)
Kevin Hetherington
Part V Old and New Politics	251	(94)
The Political Implications of the 1997 General Election	253	(9)
David Sanders
The Social Backgrounds of MPs	262	(8)
Pippa Norris
Joni Lovenduski
Citizenship and Sexuality	270	(9)
Diane Richardson
Social Class and Choice of Secondary Schooling	279	(11)
Sharon Gewirtz
Stephen Ball
Richard Bowe
Student Peer Groups and Masculinity	290	(8)
Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
Women's Careers in Teaching	298	(9)
Sandra Acker
Inequalities in Health Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health	307	(13)
Public Attitudes and the NHS	320	(9)
Ken Judge
Jo-Ann Mulligan
Bill New
Juvenile Crime	329	(7)
Anne Worrall
Moral Panics about Sex and AIDS	336	(9)
Kenneth Thompson
Index	345