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William G. Roy - University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Series:
Sociology for a New Century Series

Other Titles in:
Class and Inequality | Social Change and Modernization | Social Problems

February 2001 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This book shows how the social constructions of time, space, race, gender and class intersect with each other to produce particular social phenomena that are enduring and significant for our society. Leading the reader through examples drawn from around the world, the author shows how these categories are social constructions; historically formed, ideologically loaded, and subject to change.

Illustrations: Figures and Table

About the Author and Publisher

Foreword

Preface

1. Constructing Historical Reality

What Is Intelligence and Why Does It Matter?

The Social Construction of Reality

The Process of Social Construction

Dominant Institutions and Power

Intersections

Conclusion

2. Time

Linear and Cyclical Time

The History of Time

Time as Quantity and Commodity

Conclusion

3. Space (coauthored with Patricia Ahmed)

Space as a Thing

The Earliest Known Conceptions of Space

Non-Anglo-European Conceptions of Space

Early Anglo-European Conceptions of Space

Toward a Contemporary Anglo-European Understanding of Space

Intersections

Conclusion

4. Race

The Paradox of Race

What Is Race?

Preracial Categories

From Preracial to Racial Categories

Whiteness

Reflexivity

Intersections

Conclusion

5. Gender

Is Anatomy Destiny?

Sex and Gender

The Logic of the Category

The History of Bodies

Changing Gender in Anglo-European Society

Masculinity

Homosexual and Homosocial Relations

Intersections

Conclusion

6. Class

The Meaning of Class

The Origins of Class-Based Societies

Feudalism

Capitalism

Property

Cultural Boundaries

Conclusion

7. Intersections Small and Large

The Home

Cities

Nation

Conclusion

References

Glossary/Index

Too advanced for an introductory course.

Dr ROGER GUY

Soci Soc Work Crim Just Dept, University of North Carolina - Pembroke

January 11, 2012

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Course not offered because of budget cuts

Kenneth Wilson

Sociology Dept, East Carolina University

September 26, 2011

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