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INTRODUCTION (Andy Smith & Teresa Piacentini) (8 items)

Lecture 1: Invitation to Thinking Sociologically (AS) & Lecture 2: Thesociological imagination (TP) (8 items)

Key Readings (1 items)

The sociological imagination - C. Wright Mills, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2000Book | Essential | See: especially Chapters 1, 9, 10 and Appendix

Additional Readings (5 items)

Thinking sociologically - Zygmunt Bauman, Tim May, Askews & Holts Library Services,2001

Book | See: especially ‘Introduction’ and Chapter 1

Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective - Peter L. Berger, Ebooks CorporationLimited, 1966

Book | See: especially Chapters 1 and 2

The new sociological imagination - Steve Fuller, Dawson Books, 2006Book | See: especially Part 1 and Conclusion

Social things: an introduction to the sociological life - Charles C. Lemert, EbooksCorporation Limited, 2012

Book

Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities - Martha Craven Nussbaum, DawsonBooks, c2010

Book | See: especially Chapters 1-3

For something visual, this clip ‘Sociology as a combat sport’ (2 items)

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Sociology is a martial art 2002 Bourdieu 1/10 - 13/9/2013Audio-visual document

La Sociologie est un sport de combat 2002 Bourdieu 2/10 - 14/9/2013Audio-visual document | (This goes up to part 10, you can find this on you tube)

This is a popular film produced by Pierre Carles about the life of Pierre Bourdieu, featuringhim at demonstrations, in interviews about masculine domination, in humorous banterwith his assistants, in an informal research seminar with his colleagues, in the lecture hall,on television debating with Günter Grass, and, in a final dramatic scene, facing the wrathof immigrants.

Section 1: Class and Inequality (Matt Dawson) (77 items)

Class and Inequality 1: Karl Marx on Class (6 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Marx and the alternative to capitalism - Kieran Allen, Dawson Books, 2011Book | Essential | See: chapter 4, not only outlines Marx’s theory of class but looks at

its contemporary relevance.

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1) - Karl Marx, Engels FriedrichBook | Essential | See: Chapter 1, ‘Bourgeoisie and Proletarians’.

Additional Readings (4 items)

Classical social theory - Ian Craib, 1997Book | See: pp. 93-102.

Capitalism and modern social theory: an analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim andMax Weber - Anthony Giddens, 1971

Book | See: Chapter 3, available via Online Resource button.

Marx, Durkheim, Weber: formations of modern social thought - Ken Morrison, Askews &Holts Library Services, 2006

Book | See: pp 42-61; places Marx's theory of classes well within his wider historicalmaterialist perspective.

Stratification and power: structures of class, status and command - John Scott, 1996Book | See: Chapter 3; a bit more advanced assessment of Marx as well

Class and Inequality 2: Max Weber on Class, Status and Party (10 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

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Class - Will Atkinson, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2015Book | Essential | See: pp. 40-49.

Marx, Durkheim, Weber: formations of modern social thought - Ken Morrison, 2006Book | Essential | See: pp. 295-313.

Additional Readings (8 items)

Classical social theory - Ian Craib, 1997Book | See: pp. 128-133.

The class structure of the advanced societies - Anthony Giddens, 1981, c1980Book | See: Chapter 2, available via Online Resource button (presents Weber in relation

to Marx).

Max Weber - Frank Parkin, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2002Book | See: Chapter 4

Social divisions - Geoff Payne, 2013Book | See: Scott, John. Class and Stratification (here Scott applies Weber’s three

categories and links them to material to be discussed in lecture 6).

From Max Weber: essays in sociology - Max Weber, Hans Heinrich Gerth, C. Wright Mills,Dawson Books, 2009

Book | See: Class, Status and Party, (pages 180-195, Weber’s key statement on classand inequality. Don’t be afraid to give this a go).

The following two texts are good summaries and comparisons of both Marx and Weber

Stratification: social division and inequality - Wendy Bottero, Dawson Books, 2005Book | See: Chapter 3

Class and stratification - Rosemary Crompton, Askews & Holts Library Services, 2015Book | See: Chapter 3.

Class and Inequality 3: Pierre Bourdieu on Class as Cultural (8 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Pierre Bourdieu - Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2014Book | Essential | See: Crossley, Nick. 'Social Class' pp. 85-97

Rethinking class: culture, identities and lifestyles - Fiona Devine, 2005Book | Essential | See: The Cultural Turn, Sociology and Class Analysis. pp. 1-23.

(talks about Bourdieu’s approach and places it within a wider focus on culture incontemporary sociology).

Additional Readings (6 items)

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Class - Will Atkinson, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2015Book | See: Chapter 4

Education: culture, economy, and society - A. H. Halsey, 1997Book | See: Bourdieu, Pierre. (1997) 'The Forms of Capital', available via Online

Resource button. (Bourdieu can be quite a challenge to read so perhaps only read thisafter doing some of the other secondary readings, but this is a good outline of how capitalworks)

Becoming Middle Class: How Working-class University Students Draw and Transgress MoralClass Boundaries - W. Lehmann, 2009-08-01

Article

Notes on ‘What Not To Wear’ and post-feminist symbolic violence - Angela McRobbie,2005-04-06

Article

Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, `Race' and the Higher Education ChoiceProcess - D. Reay, J. Davies, M. David, S. J Ball, 2001-11-01

Article | Good article which uses Bourdieu to talk about how class and race influence theuniversity and subject people choose to study, or rather the lack of choices they have.

Approaches to class analysis - Erik Olin Wright, Dawson Books, 2005Book | See: Weininger, Elliot. (2005) 'Foundations of Pierre Bourdieu's Class Analysis'.

pp 82-118. (sophisticated analysis of Bourdieu which links the discussion to symbolicviolence)

Class and Inequality 4: Neoliberal Inequalities: Poverty, Inequality andthe Precariat (18 items)

Key Readings (1 items)

The Precariat and Class Struggle - Guy Standing, 2015-10-01Article | Essential

Additional Readings (17 items)

The Precariat: Basic Income in a Politics of Paradise - Guy StandingDocument | Essential

Work, consumerism and the new poor - Zygmunt Bauman, 2005Book

A Chronicle of Crisis: 2011 - 2016 - Zygmunt Bauman, 2017Book | See: Chapters 8 and 16 discuss the precariat

A bogus concept? - Jan Breman, 2013

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Article | written from a Marxist perspective, as the title gives away, this is critical aboutthe value of Standing’s idea

Understanding social inequality - Tim Butler, Paul Watt, 2007Book | See: Chapter 6

Poverty and insecurity: life in low-pay, no-pay Britain - Tracy Shildrick, Robert MacDonald,Colin Webster, Kayleigh Garthwaite, 2013

Book | See: Chapters 2 and 10 for a discussion of the precariat

The precariat: the new dangerous class - Guy Standing, 2014Book | See: Chapter 1, the rest of this book will also be useful for this week

A precariat charter: from denizens to citizens - Guy Standing, 2014Book | See: especially Chapter 1, which expands a bit on what the precariat is

Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times - Imogen Tyler,2015-05

Article

Making the neoliberal precariat: Two faces of job searching in Minneapolis - Madison VanOort, 2015-03

Article | This is based upon two organisations in Minnesota which help people find work.The author discusses the different ways in which they encouraged people into part of theprecariat

Understanding class - Erik Olin Wright, 2015Book | See: Chapter 9 is a critical look at whether the precariat is a class

For readings which discuss these topics with specific reference to Scotland see:

Neoliberal Scotland: class and society in a stateless nation - Ebooks Corporation Limited,2010

Book | See: Chapters 2-4 and 6.

'We've never had it so good': The 'problem' of the working class in devolved Scotland -Alex Law, Gerry Mooney, 2006-08-01

Article

The new sociology of Scotland - David McCrone, 2017Book | See: Chapter 7

Poverty in Scotland 2014: the independence referendum and beyond - 2014Book

Devolution, social democratic visions and policy reality in Scotland - Gill Scott, SharonWright, 2012-08-01

Article | More of a focus on what the Scottish government does about poverty

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Class and Inequality 5: The Hidden Injuries of Class: Experiencing Class(14 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Getting by: estates, class and culture in austerity Britain - Lisa McKenzie, 2015Book | Essential | See: Chapter 2, rest of the book is also relevant for this week

Gentrification: a working-class perspective - Kirsteen Paton, Dawson Books, 2016Book | Essential | See: Chapter 4, rest of the book is also relevant for this week. This

focuses on gentrification in the Partick area of Glasgow

Additional Readings (12 items)

Class inequality in austerity Britain: Power, difference and suffering - Will Atkinson, StevenRoberts, Mike Savage, 2012

Book | See: especially Chapters 2-5

Raising the ‘Meritocracy’: Parenting and the Individualization of Social Class - Val Gillies,2005-12

Article

'Getting out and getting away': Women's narratives of class mobility - Steph Lawler,Autumn 1999

Article

Beyond Consciousness? The Psychic Landscape of Social Class - Diane Reay, 2005-12Article

The hidden injuries of class - Richard Sennett, Jonathan Cobb, 1977Book | While the empirical evidence is a bit outdated now, the argument about what

class does is still important

Poverty talk: how people experiencing poverty deny their poverty and why they blame ‘thepoor’ - Tracy Shildrick, Robert MacDonald, 2013-05

Article

Formations of class and gender: becoming respectable - Beverley Skeggs, 1997Book | See: Chapter 5

For further readings that discuss this in relation to Glasgow, see:

Glasgow’s new urban frontier: ‘Civilising’ the population of ‘Glasgow East’ - Neil Gray,Gerry Mooney, 2011-02

Article

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‘Benefits Street’ and the Myth of Workless Communities - Robert Macdonald, TracyShildrick, Andy Furlong, 2014-09

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The ‘Broken Society’ Election: Class Hatred and the Politics of Poverty and Place inGlasgow East - Gerry Mooney, 2009-10

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Place revisited: class, stigma and urban restructuring in the case of Glasgow’sCommonwealth Games - Kirsteen Paton, Vikki McCall, Gerry Mooney, 2017-02

Article

Class and Inequality 6: Comparing Class Models: Nuffield and the GreatBritish Class Survey (21 items)

Key Readings (1 items)

A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class SurveyExperiment - M. Savage, F. Devine, N. Cunningham, M. Taylor, Y. Li, J. Hjellbrekke, B. LeRoux, S. Friedman, A. Miles, 2013-04-01

Article | Essential | This contains all the key findings from the BBC class surveyconducted this year, don’t be put off by the statistics/graphs and instead focus on theconclusions they make. If you struggle with the early bit you only need to read from page233 onwards

Additional Readings (20 items)

These all consider the Nuffield schema

Social class in the 21st century - Michael Savage, 2015Book | Essential | See: Conclusion, the rest of this book is also useful for this week. It is

aimed at a mass audience and provides a very detailed breakdown of the survey results

Class - Will Atkinson, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2015Book | See: pp. 49-58.

Class and stratification - Rosemary Crompton, Askews & Holts Library Services, 2015Book | See: Chapter 3.

Social mobility and class structure in modern Britain - John Harry Goldthorpe, CatrionaLlewellyn, Clive Payne, 1987

Book | See: Chapter 2, available via Online Resource button. Chapter 2 is Goldthorpe’smost extensive discussion of the Nuffield model. Best to read this only after reading theother texts first since it can be quite complex

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Understanding inequalities: stratification and difference - Lucinda Platt, c2011Book | See: Chapter 2 - applies the Nuffield model in light of current evidence.

Class in contemporary Britain - Kenneth Roberts, Kenneth Roberts, c2011Book | See: Chapter 2

Class analysis and social transformation - Michael Savage, 2000Book | See: Chapter 4 available via Online Resource Button

Social Class and Stratification in Late Modernity - John Scott, 2002-3-1Article | Outlines the Nuffield schema and assesses its contemporary value

Women and Class Analysis: A Reply to John Goldthorpe - Michelle Stanworth, 1984-05-01Article

There have been some recent criticisms of, and further writing on, the BBC modelpublished. The best are:

Class Descriptors or Class Relations? Thoughts Towards a Critique of Savage et al. -Harriett Bradley, 2014-06-01

Article

Thinking about Class - Danny Dorling, 2014-06-01Article

The Great British Class Fiasco: A Comment on Savage et al. - Colin Mills, 2014-06-01Article

The Great British Class Survey: requiescat in pace - Colin Mills, 2015-05Article

On Social Class, Anno 2014 - M. Savage, F. Devine, N. Cunningham, S. Friedman, D.Laurison, A. Miles, H. Snee, M. Taylor, 2015-12-01

Article | This is a response to the criticisms offered of the model

Introduction: stratification or exploitation, domination, dispossession and devaluation? -Beverley Skeggs, 2015-05

Article

For readings which discuss the Nuffield scheme with specific reference to Scotland see:

The new sociology of Scotland - David McCrone, 2017Book | See: Chapter 9

Social mobility in Scotland since the middle of the twentieth century - Cristina Iannelli,Lindsay Paterson, 2006-08-02

Article

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Section 2: Self, Society and Belonging (Teresa Piacentini) (92 items)

Self, Society and Belonging 1: Thinking conceptually (Identity) (7 items)

Key Readings (1 items)

Beyond "Identity" - Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper, 2000Article | Essential

Additional Readings (6 items)

Categories of analysis and categories of practice: a note on the study of Muslims inEuropean countries of immigration - Rogers Brubaker, 2013-01

Article

Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding inEurope’s ‘migration crisis’ - Heaven Crawley, Dimitris Skleparis, 2017-07-06

Article

Social identity - Richard Jenkins, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2014Book | See: especially chapters 1, 2, 11, 14 and 15.

Self, Belonging and Social Change - Vanessa May, 2011Article

A short history of society - Mary Evans, 2006, c2007Book

Military Identities in the Situated Accounts of British Military Personnel - R. Woodward, K.Neil Jenkings, 2011-04-01

Article

Self, Society and Belonging 2: Moral Panics, Deviance and the Media (16items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Folk devils and moral panics: the creation of the mods and the rockers - Stanley Cohen,Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2002

Book | Essential | See: especially ‘Moral Panics as Cultural Politics: Introduction to theThird Edition’, Chapters 1 and 6.

Moral Panic Analysis: Past, Present and Future - Chas Critcher, 2008-07Article | Essential

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Additional Readings (14 items)

INVENTING THE ‘TRADITIONAL WORKING CLASS’: A RE-ANALYSIS OF INTERVIEW NOTESFROM YOUNG AND WILLMOTT'S FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN EAST LONDON - JON LAWRENCE,2016-06

Article

School Shootings, the Media, and Public Fear: Ingredients for a Moral Panic - Ronald Burns,1999

Article

Moral panics and social work: Towards a sceptical view of UK child protection - G. Clapton,V. E. Cree, M. Smith, 2013-05-01

Article

Revisiting moral panics - Viviene E. Cree, Gary Clapton, Mark Smith, 2016Book

The Presentation of Child Trafficking in the UK: An Old and New Moral Panic? - V. E. Cree,G. Clapton, M. Smith, 2014-03-01

Article

Moral panics: the social construction of deviance - Erich Goode, Nachman Ben-Yehuda,2009

Book

Sheffield’s Roma, David Blunkett and an immoral racist panic - J. GraysonWebpage

Media & crime - Yvonne Jewkes, 2015Book

The Ashgate research companion to moral panics - Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2013Book | See: especially the Introduction for an overview of moral panic theory

Rethinking 'Moral Panic' for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds - Angela McRobbie, Sarah L.Thornton, 1995-12

Article

Extending the Concept of Moral Panic: Elias, Climate Change and Civilization - AmandaRohloff, 2011

Article

Moral panics - Kenneth A. Thompson, Dawson Books, 1998Book | See: especially Chapters 1, 2 and 6.

Moral panic versus the risk society: the implications of the changing sites of social anxiety- Sheldon Ungar, 2001-6-1

Article

Mugging as a Moral Panic: A Question of Proportion - P. A. J. Waddington, 1986-06Article

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Self, Society and Belonging 3: Impression Management, Roles andSocial Identity (15 items)

Key Readings (7 items)

The presentation of self in everyday life - Erving Goffman, 1990, c1959Book | Essential | See: Introduction and Chapter 1.

AND EITHER

The Goffman reader - Erving Goffman, Charles C. Lemert, Ann Branaman, 1997Book | See: 'Goffman's Social Theory', pp. xlv-lxxiii, available via Online Resource

button.

OR

The Goffman reader - Erving Goffman, Charles C. Lemert, Ann Branaman, 1997Book | See: 'Goffman'.

You may also be interested in listening to the BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' programme(30 minutes) devoted to Goffman:

Thinking Allowed - Erving Goffman - Monday, 9 Sep 2013Audio-visual document

Additional Readings (8 items)

'The presentation of self in the online world': Goffman and the study of online identities - L.Bullingham, A. C. Vasconcelos, 2013-02-01

Article

What Kind of Mother Am I? Impression Management and the Social Construction ofMotherhood - Jessica L. Collett, 2005-08

Article

Profiles in contemporary social theory - Anthony Elliott, Bryan S. Turner, 2001Book | See: Chapter 8.

Social theory and modern sociology - Anthony Giddens, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 1987Book | See: Chapter 5: ‘Erving Goffman as a systematic social theorist’.

Mothers on Display: Lunchboxes, Social Class and Moral Accountability - V. Harman, B.Cappellini, 2015-08-01

Article

Illuminating social life: classical and contemporary theory revisited - Peter Kivisto, c2013Book

Theoretical Perspectives on Goffman: Critique and Commentary - George Psathas, 1996-10Article

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Goffman in Feminist Perspective - Candace West, 1996-10Article

Self, Society and Belonging 4: Emotional Labour, Skill and Work (21items)

Key Readings (7 items)

Choose either:

Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure - Arlie Russell Hochschild, 1979Article

Or:

The managed heart: commercialization of human feeling - Arlie Russell Hochschild, EbooksCorporation Limited, 2012

Book | See: especially Chapter 1

The managed heart: commercialization of human feeling - Arlie Russell Hochschild, c2012Book | See: especially Chapter 1

And

The Sociology of Emotional Labor - Amy S. Wharton, 2009Article

Additional Readings (14 items)

Overcoming Arlie Hochschild's concepts of the ‘real’ and ‘false’ self by drawing on PierreBourdieu's concept of habitus - Michelle Addison, 2017-05

Article

Trolley Dolly or Skilled Emotion Manager? Moving on from Hochschild's Managed Heart -Sharon C. Bolton, Carol Boyd, 2003-6-1

Article

In critical defence of 'emotional labour': refuting Bolton's critique of Hochschild's concept -P. Brook, 2009-09-01

Article

Global Servitude with a smile: and anti-oppression analysis of emotional labour. - P. Chong,2009

Article

Doing Emotional Labour: The Experiences of Indian Call Centre Agents - P. D'Cruz, E.Noronha, 2008-06-01

Article

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Serving Hamburgers and Selling Insurance: Gender, Work, and Identity in InteractiveService Jobs - R. Leidner, 1991-06-01

Article

Gender, emotional labour and teamworking in a call centre - Kate Mulholland, 2002Article

Aesthetic and emotional labour through stigma: national identity management and racialabuse in offshored Indian call centres - V. Nath, 2011-12-01

Article

Emotional labour and emotional strain among Swedish prison officers - P.-A. Nylander, O.Lindberg, A. Bruhn, 2011-11-01

Article

The managed heart revisited: health and social control - Martin O'Brien, 2008-06-28Article

Look Good, Feel Better: Beauty Therapy as Emotional Labour - U. Sharma, P. Black,2001-11-01

Article

Hard labour at 35,000 feet: A reconsideration of emotional demands in airline service work- Conor Sheehan, 2012-08-08

Article | Article not part of a Library subscription

Emotional Labor Since The Managed Heart - Ronnie J. Steinberg, Deborah M. Figart, 1999Article

‘Feeling like a sponge’: the emotional labour produced by solicitors in their interactionswith clients seeking asylum - Chalen Westaby, 2010-07

Article

Self, Society and Belonging 5: Community, Belonging and Kinship (12items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Family and kinship in East London - Michael Dunlop Young, Peter Willmott, 2011Book | Essential | See: especially New Introduction, Introduction, and Chapters 1, 5, 8,

10 and 11

Community - Gerard Delanty, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2010Book | Essential | See: Introduction

Additional Readings (10 items)

Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-termand long-term perspectives - Ade Kearns, Valerie Wright, Lynn Abrams, Barry Hazley,

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2017-12-17Article

Family and Kinship in London RevisitedArticle

INVENTING THE ‘TRADITIONAL WORKING CLASS’: A RE-ANALYSIS OF INTERVIEW NOTESFROM YOUNG AND WILLMOTT'S FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN EAST LONDON - JON LAWRENCE,2016-06

Article

Community: seeking safety in an insecure world - Zygmunt Bauman, 2001Book

Community studies: an introduction to the sociology of the local community - Colin Bell,Howard Newby, 1971

Book

The symbolic construction of community - Anthony P. Cohen, 1985Book | See: especially Chapter 1

Realizing community: concepts, social relationships and sentiments - 2002Book | See: Cohen, A. P., 'Epilogue'.

Self, Belonging and Social Change - V. May, 2011-06-01Article

Getting by: estates, class and culture in austerity Britain - Lisa McKenzie, Dawson Books,2015

Book

The traveller-gypsies - Judith Okely, 1983Book | See: especially Chapters 1 and 6, available via Online Resource button.

Self, Society and Belonging 6: Community, Ethnicity and Culture (21items)

Key Readings (1 items)

Contesting culture: discourses of identity in multi-ethnic London - Gerd Baumann, c1996Book | Essential | See: especially Chapters 1 and 2, available via Online Resource

button.

Additional Readings (20 items)

Ethnicity without groups - Rogers Brubaker, 2002Article

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The British on the Costa del Sol: transnational identities and local communities - KarenO'Reilly, 2000

Book | Essential | See: Chapters 1, 4 and 5.

Categories of analysis and categories of practice: a note on the study of Muslims inEuropean countries of immigration - Rogers Brubaker, 2013-01

Article

Glasgow's Ellis Island? The integration and stigmatisation of Govanhill's Roma population -Colin Clark, 2014-04-29

Article

Ethnicity - Steve Fenton, Dawson Books, 2010Book | See: especially Chapters 1, 5 and 9.

New directions in race, ethnicity and crime - Dawson Books, 2014Book | See: 'We belong to Glasgow: the thirdspaces of youth 'gangs' and asylum

seeker, refugee and migrant groups.' (chapter 4).

Bengali Muslims: the new East End radicals? - Sarah Glynn, 2002-01Article

“It's building up to something and it won't be nice when it erupts”: The making ofRoma/Gypsy migrants in post-industrial Scotland - Jan Grill, 2012-03-27

Article

Migrant Urbanisms: Ordinary Cities and Everyday Resistance - S. M. Hall, 2015-10-01Article

Rethinking ethnicity: Identity, categorization and power - Richard Jenkins, 1994-04Article

Purging the nation: race, conviviality and embodied encounters in the lives of BritishBangladeshi Muslim young women - Anoop Nayak, 2017-06

Article

Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter - G. Valentine, 2008-06-01Article

Commonplace diversity and the ‘ethos of mixing’: perceptions of difference in a Londonneighbourhood - Susanne Wessendorf, 2013-08-11

Article

Ethnic and Racial Studies: 40th anniversary Special Issue Classic Papers in Context - 2017Journal

CLASSIC PAPER

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Super-diversity and its implications - Steven Vertovec, 2007-11Article

COMMENTARY

Mooring “super-diversity” to a brutal migration milieu - Suzanne M. Hall, 2017-07-15Article

RESPONSE

Mooring, migration milieus and complex explanations - Steven Vertovec, 2017-07-15Article

Section 3: The Sociology of Everyday Life (Andy Smith) (85 items)

Sociology of Everyday Life 1 - Small acts: the sociology of everydaylife. (21 items)

Key Readings (3 items)

Why Everyday Life Matters: Class, Community and Making Life Livable - L. Back,2015-10-01

Article | Essential

Understanding everyday life - Tony Bennett, Diane H. Watson, Open University, 2002Book | Essential | See: Introduction.

The presentation of self in everyday life - Erving Goffman, 1990, c1959Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1 available via Online Resource Button.

Additional Readings (18 items)

The practice of everyday life - Michel de Certeau, 1988Book | See: General Introduction.

The structures of everyday life: the limits of the possible - Fernand Braudel, 1981Book | See: Preface and Conclusion, available via Online Resource button.

The Norbert Elias reader: a biographical selection - Norbert Elias, 1998Book | See: pp. 166-174, available via Online Resource button.

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Self-identity and everyday life - Harvie Ferguson, 2009Book | See: Chapter titled 'Concepts'.

Everyday life and cultural theory: an introduction - Ben Highmore, 2002Book | See: Chapters 1 and 2.

The everyday life reader - Ben Highmore, 2002Book | See: Introduction, available via Online Resource button.

The Everyday and Everydayness - Henri Lefebvre and Christine Levich, 1987Article | See also the editors’ introduction to this special issue on ‘everyday life’

Introduction - Alice Kaplan and Kristin Ross, 1987Article | See: the editors’ introduction to this special issue on ‘everyday life’ .

Situating everyday life: practices and places - Sarah Pink, 2012Book | See: especially chapters 2 and 3.

Making sense of everyday life - Susie Scott, 2009Book | See: Especially chapters 1 and 2.

The Focus on Everyday Life: a New Turn in Sociology - Piotr Sztompka, 2008Article

Resources of hope: culture, democracy, socialism - Raymond Williams, 1989Book | See: Williams, Raymond, ‘Culture is Ordinary’, pp.3-14 (also in the Highmore

reader listed above), available via Online Resource button.

There are also a number of 'special issues' of sociology and related journals dedicated toeveryday life, including: 

Sociology - 2008Journal | See: Special issue dedicated to everyday life.

Qualitative Sociology - 1997Journal | See: Special issue dedicated to everyday life.

Cultural StudiesJournal | See: Special issue dedicated to everyday life.

Everyday life has also been the focus of considerable philosophical discussion – theconcerns of philosophers are not always the same as those of sociologists, but there issome overlap in the questions they ask: if you want a witty introduction to those have a goat some of the 'experiments' in the book:

101 experiments in the philosophy of everyday life - Roger-Pol Droit, 2003Book

Sociology of Everyday Life 2 - Same old, same old: repetition, boredom,leisure. (10 items)

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Key Readings (2 items)

The Invention of Everyday Life - Felski R.Article | Essential | See: Felski, R. ‘The Invention of Everyday Life’. Vol. 39. pp. 15-31.

Critique of everyday life: Vol. 2: Foundations for a sociology of the everyday - HenriLefebvre, 2002

Book | Essential | See: pp. 70-85, available via Online Resource button.

Additional Readings (8 items)

The culture industry: selected essays on mass culture - Theodor W. Adorno, 1991Book | See: Adorno, T. ‘The Culture Industry Reconsidered’.

Escape attempts: the theory and practice of resistance to everyday life - Stanley Cohen,Laurie Taylor, 1992

Book | See: Especially Chapter 5.

Self-identity and everyday life - Harvie Ferguson, 2009Book | See: Ferguson, H. ‘Mood’. pp. 167-173.

Encounters: two studies in the sociology of interaction - 2013Book | See: Goffman, E. ‘Fun in Games’ (especially from ‘Dynamics of Encounters’

onwards).

The uses of literacy: aspects of working class life with special reference to publications andentertainments - Richard Hoggart, 1992

Book | See: Hoggart, R. ‘The Full, Rich Life’, available via Online Resource button.

Critique of everyday life: Vol. 1: Introduction - Henri Lefebvre, translated by John Moore ;with a preface by Michel Trebitsch, 1991

Book | See: Lefebvre, H. pp. 32-42, available via Online Resource button (a discussionof leisure and of other ‘breaks’ from the everyday).

Practice of everyday life: Volume 2: Living and Cooking - Michel de Certeau, 2014Book | See: Mayol, P. ‘The End of the Week.

Do you believe in magic? Computer games in everyday life - D. Pargman, P. Jakobsson,2008-05-01

Article

Sociology of Everyday Life 3 - Hum-drum? resistance and complicity indaily life. (13 items)

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Key Readings (2 items)

Escape attempts: the theory and practice of resistance to everyday life - Stanley Cohen,Laurie Taylor, 1992

Book | Essential | See: Chapter 2; see also Chapter 5.

The practice of everyday life - Michel de Certeau, 1988Book | Essential | See: ‘Chapter 3: Making Do: Uses and Tactics’.

Additional Readings (11 items)

The role of ‘persistent resilience’ within everyday life and polity: households coping withmarginality within the ‘Big Society’ - Lauren Andres, John Round, 2015

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The origins of totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt, 1973Book | See: pp. 474-479, available via Online Resource button (an important short

passage at the end of this famous study of totalitarianism, on loneliness and everyday life- pagination may differ across editions).

Class inequality in austerity Britain: Power, difference and suffering - Will Atkinson, StevenRoberts, Mike Savage, 2012

Book | See: Atkinson, Will. ‘Economic Crisis and Classed Everyday Life’

Why Everyday Life Matters: Class, Community and Making Life Livable - L. Back,2015-10-01

Article

The social construction of reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge - Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 1966

Book | See: Berger, P. and Luckmann, T. ‘The Foundations of Knowledge in EverydayLife’ .

Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste - Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice, TonyBennett, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2010

Book | See: ‘The Taste for Necessity and the Principle of Conformity’: pp. 372-384, (seealso his discussion of ‘taste’ and food’: pp. 177-208).

Cultural studies - Linda Baughman, John Macgregor, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 1992Book | See: Fiske, J. ‘Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life’.

Bouncing back? Recession, resilience and everyday lives - E. Harrison, 2013-02-01Article

Critique of everyday life: Vol. 1: Introduction - Henri Lefebvre, 1991Book | Lefebvre, H. ‘What is Possible’.

Also, if you like novels, you might try this: 

Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada, Michale Hoffmann, 2009Book

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Sociology of Everyday Life 4 - (Un)homely: gender, domesticity andeveryday life. (14 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Understanding everyday life - 2002Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1, available via Online Resource button.

The everyday world as problematic: a feminist sociology - Dorothy E. Smith, c1987Book | Essential | See: especially chapters 1-3.

Additional Readings (12 items)

White lives: the interplay of 'race', class, and gender in everyday life - Bridget Byrne, 2006Book | See: Chapter 6.

The Invention of Everyday Life - R. FelskiArticle | See: Felski, R. ‘The Invention of Everyday Life'. Vol. 39, pp. 15-31.

The everyday life reader - Ben Highmore, 2002Book | See: Friedan, B. ‘The Problem That Has No Name’: (chapter 5).

Migrant Urbanisms: Ordinary Cities and Everyday Resistance - S. M. Hall, 2015-10-01Article

Mothers on Display: Lunchboxes, Social Class and Moral Accountability - V. Harman, B.Cappellini, 2015-08-01

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Reconceptualizing power and gendered subjectivities in domestic cooking spaces - AngelaMeah, 2014-10

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The Talking Cure in Everyday Life: Gender, Generations and Friendship - J. McLeod, K.Wright, 2009-02-01

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Situating everyday life: practices and places - Sarah Pink, 2012Book | See: Chapters 4 and 5.

Everyday Experiences of Sexism in Male-dominated Professions: A BourdieusianPerspective - A. Powell, K. J. Sang, 2015-10-01

Article

Reconceptualising the Mundane and the Extraordinary: A Lens through Which to ExploreTransformation within Women's Everyday Footwear Practices - V. Robinson, 2015-10-01

Article

Making sense of everyday life - Susie Scott, 2009

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Book | See: Especially chapter 4.

Practice of everyday life: Volume 2: Living and Cooking - Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard,Pierre Mayol, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2014

Book | See: Girard, L. ‘Doing Cooking’.

Sociology of Everyday Life 5 - Hanging around: everydayneighbourhoods and spaces. (10 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Simmel on culture: selected writings - 1997Book | Essential | See: Chapter titled ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’, available via

Online Resource button.

Practice of everyday life: Volume 2: Living and Cooking - Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard,Pierre Mayol, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2014

Book | Essential | See: ‘The Neighbourhood’, ‘Propriety’ and ‘The Street Trade’.

Additional Readings (8 items)

Understanding everyday life - 2002Book | See: Chapters 3 and 6.

The practice of everyday life - Michel de Certeau, Ebooks Corporation Limited, 1988Book | See: section titled ‘Spatial Practices’; see also chapter 7.

Practice of everyday life: Volume 2: Living and Cooking - Michel de Certeau, 2014Book | See: Section titled 'Ghosts in the City'.

The aesthetics of everyday life - Ebooks Corporation Limited, 2005Book | See: Haapala, Arto. ‘On the Aesthetics of the Everyday: Familiarity, Strangeness,

and the Meaning of Place’

Situating everyday life: practices and places - Sarah Pink, 2012Book | See: Chapters 6 and 7.

'Mindless Markers of the Nation': The Routine Flagging of Nationhood Across the VisualEnvironment - Michael Skey, 2015-08-10

Article

Women, neighbourhoods and everyday life - Dina Vaiou, Rouli Lykogianni, 2006-1-1Article

People in places: the sociology of the familiar - 1973Book | See: Wolff, M. 'Notes on the behaviour of pedestrians': See also section titled

'Subway Behaviour', available via Online Resource button.

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Sociology of Everyday Life 6 - Ordinary differences: racism, ethnicityand everyday life (17 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Understanding everyday racism: an interdisciplinary theory - Philomena Essed, c1991Book | Essential | See: especially Introduction, Chapter 5 and Conclusion.

Consuming and living the corner shop: belonging, remembering, socialising - JonathanEverts, 2010-12

Article | Essential

Additional Readings: (15 items)

In the Shadow of the Other: Boxing, Everyday Struggles and the Feeling of Strangeness - J.Beauchez, 2015-06-25

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The invisible weight of whiteness: the racial grammar of everyday life in contemporaryAmerica - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2011-09-29

Article

White lives: the interplay of 'race', class, and gender in everyday life - Bridget Byrne, 2006Book

Thinking spatially: towards an everyday understanding of inter-ethnic relations - JohnClayton, 2009-06

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Racecraft: the soul of inequality in American life - Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields,2012

Book | See: Section titled ‘A Tour of Racecraft’, available via Online Resource button.

The everyday life reader - Ben Highmore, 2002Book | See: Hall, S. ‘Reconstruction Work; Images of Postwar Black Settlement’ (chapter

25).

Migrant Urbanisms: Ordinary Cities and Everyday Resistance - S. M. Hall, 2015-10-01Article

The Taj Mahal in the High Street: The Indian Restaurant as Diasporic Popular Culture inBritain - Ben Highmore, 2009-06-01

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Ethnicity and everyday life - Christian Karner, 2007Book

The silent language of ethnicity - B. Kramvig, 2005-02-01Article

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Everyday Race-Making: Navigating Racial Boundaries in Schools - Amanda E. Lewis,2003-11-1

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Racism and everyday life: social theory, history and 'race' - Andrew Smith, 2016Book

Rethinking the ‘everyday’ in ‘ethnicity and everyday life’ - Andrew Smith, 2015-05-28Article

New geographies of race and racism - Claire Dwyer, Caroline Bressey, c2008Book | See: ‘Everyday Multiculture and the Emergence of Race’.

Does ethnicity matter? Everyday group formation in three Swiss immigrantneighbourhoods - Andreas Wimmer, 2004-01

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Digitised Readings (5 items)

Ethnic groups and boundaries: The social organization of culture difference : results of asymposium held at the University of Bergen, 23rd to 26th February 1967 - Fredrik Barth,Bergen, Norway. Universitetet, 1969

Book | See: Introduction, pp. 9-38, available via Online Resource button.

Politics and letters: interviews with New Left review - Raymond Williams, 1979Book | See: Culture and society, pp. 97-132, available via Online Resource button.

The death of class - Jan Pakulski, Malcolm Waters, 1996Book | See: Chapter 2, available via Online Resource button.

Class in contemporary Britain - Kenneth Roberts, Kenneth Roberts, c2011Book | See: Chapter 4.

Understanding the underclass - David John Smith, Policy Studies Institute, c1992Book | See: Chapters 1, 3 and 8. Chapter 3 available via Online Resource button.

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