The Contemporary British Society Reader

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

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.

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

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The Contemporary British Society Reader

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