SOCIAL DIFFERENCES AND DIVISIONS. This item is unavailable.SOCIAL DIFFERENCES AND DIVISIONS

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

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).