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There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, in terms of both empirical and theoretical study and debate. Contributors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.

There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, in terms of both empirical and theoretical study and debate. Contributors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.

This book brings together a collection of essays which look creatively and imaginatively at issues of research methods and methodology in sociology. The diversity of research approaches discussed in this reader should make it an important contribution to research methods teaching for undergraduate and graduate students of sociology.

This volume draws together an impressive series of papers that explore enduring and new problems in the construction and analysis of British social policy.

Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world.

Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices.

List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Restructuring and Recession; K.Purcell and S.Wood - Contract Work in the Recession; R.Fevre - Re-dividing Labour: Factory Politics and Work Reorganisation; B.Jones and M.Rose - Recruitment as a Means of Control; M.Maguire - Multinational Companies and Women's Labour; R.Pearson - Work, Home and the Restructuring of Jobs; H.Bradley - Word Processing and the Secretarial Labour Process; J.Webster - New Technology and the Service Class; J.Child - Rationalisation, Technical Change and Employee Relations; W.Littek - Women and Technology: Opportunity is not Enough; C.Cockburn - Gender, Exploitation and Consent amongst Sheltered Housing Wardens; S.Cunnison - Bibliography - Index

Gender, Power and Sexuality is a collection of original and exciting articles by well-known feminists which makes a major contribution to our understanding of the ways in which men exercise control over girls and women in their daily lives, in the home, at school, at work and in the courts.

Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities.

Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this book stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption.

An edited collection exploring divisions and changes within and between the spheres of consumption and production. Peter Saunders' work provides the initial stimulus for many of the papers, but all go beyond his narrow conception of a sociology of consumption and his liberal analysis of patterns of social inequality.

Nationalism is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, Worlds of the Future. Older discourses on national sovereignty and statehood are evaluated in terms of their validity within a world increasingly defined by transnational integration and global economic competition.

The British Sociological Association held a conference on the theme "Sociology and History". In 1964, E.H. Carr had called for an open frontier between the disciplines. This book examines the traffic across this frontier and in particular, what might be called the sociological uses of history.

As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of 'expert' knowledge arising in places that would have been felt unlikely hitherto.