Embodying the Social: Constructions of Difference

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SOCIAL POLICY: WELFARE, POWER AND DIVERSITY
Series editor: John
Embodying the Soc/a/explores the problem of why we treat forms of social difference as if they were the consequences of biology. It opens up the study of social life by treating difference as being produced by processes of social construction. The book addresses general questions about how to analyse these processes in relation to social differences, social problems and social welfare. It also explores these in relation to prominent patterns of social differentiation in the UK today. Using case studies of racialized differences, sexualities and ideas of disability, the book examines how such differences are constructed and why the dominant constructions recurrently naturalize these differences. Embodying the Social \s a specially designed teaching text intended to engage with such central questions as:
How do we understand social differences?
Why do we equate differences with biologically or bodily visible... Tovább

Fülszöveg

SOCIAL POLICY: WELFARE, POWER AND DIVERSITY
Series editor: John
Embodying the Soc/a/explores the problem of why we treat forms of social difference as if they were the consequences of biology. It opens up the study of social life by treating difference as being produced by processes of social construction. The book addresses general questions about how to analyse these processes in relation to social differences, social problems and social welfare. It also explores these in relation to prominent patterns of social differentiation in the UK today. Using case studies of racialized differences, sexualities and ideas of disability, the book examines how such differences are constructed and why the dominant constructions recurrently naturalize these differences. Embodying the Social \s a specially designed teaching text intended to engage with such central questions as:
How do we understand social differences?
Why do we equate differences with biologically or bodily visible symbols?
What consequences do such natural images of difference have for social welfare?
What is the significance of challenges to the natural or biological constructs of difference?
Embodying the Soc/a/takes these questions as its starting-point and develops ways of thinking about social difference that inform our understanding of contemporary social organization and the place of social welfare policies within it. The book is one in a series - Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity- created by The Open University in partnership with Routledge that provides an innovative and stimulating introduction to the study of social policy.
Social policy/Sociology Vissza