Social Differences and Divisions

This text introduces students to the main forms of social division and difference that characterise contemporary society.

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• 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).