Ideas of Difference: Social Spaces and the Labour of Division (Sociological Review Monographs) - Softcover

 
9780631207689: Ideas of Difference: Social Spaces and the Labour of Division (Sociological Review Monographs)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631207686 ISBN 13: 9780631207689
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labour of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labour. Ideas of Difference will appeal to anyone working on identity, organizing, materiality, ethics or spatiality. In reversing the traditional ′division of labour′. the book puts the issue of difference in question. The issue is not so much that differences are reproduced through social constructions, but of identifying the work that social construction allows in creating, consuming and switching ′divisions′. Divisions are no longer seen as fixed, or natural, but are implicated in performing difference.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Kevin Hetherington is a Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University.

Rolland Munro is Reader in Accountability at the Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele University.

From the Back Cover

This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labor of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labor. Ideas of Difference will appeal to anyone working on identity, organizing, materiality, ethics or spatiality. In reversing the traditional ′division of labor′ the book puts the issue of difference in question. The issue is not so much that differences are reproduced through social constructions, as that of identifying the work that social construction allows in creating, consuming and switching "divisions". Divisions are no longer seen as fixed, or natural, but are implicated in performing difference.

From the Inside Flap

This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labor of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labor. Ideas of Difference will appeal to anyone working on identity, organizing, materiality, ethics or spatiality. In reversing the traditional 'division of labor' the book puts the issue of difference in question. The issue is not so much that differences are reproduced through social constructions, as that of identifying the work that social construction allows in creating, consuming and switching divisions. Divisions are no longer seen as fixed, or natural, but are implicated in performing difference.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Wiley–Blackwell
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631207686
ISBN 13 
9780631207689
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
312
Editor
Hetherington Kevin, Munro Rolland