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Tables of Contents for The Contemporary British Society Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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