Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Gendered Cyborg explores the relationship between representation, technoscience and gender, through the metaphor of the cyborg. The contributors argue that the figure of the cyborg offers ways of thinking about the relationship between culture and technology, people and machines which disrupt the power of science to enfore the categories through which we think about being human: male and female...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years `culture' has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this `turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)