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About the Creators

John Nagle is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he researches conflict and peace processes, multiculturalism and social movements. His work is widely published in the academic and popular press, and he has provided research consultancy for both the media and international public policy bodies. Piero is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer whose work has been included in the Royal College of Art in London. He has illustrated many Introducing titles.

Index acting puppet theatre, society as 12, 54 social actors 54 emotional performance 55–6 action frame of reference 44 Ang, Ien 133 aesthetic taste, class and 77–8 analytical realism 43 Anderson, Benedict 163 assimilation 113, 118 asylum 60–62, 65

Barth, Fredrik 160 Bauman, Zygmunt 4, 10, 70, 119 Beck, Ulrich 135–6, 138, 141–2 Becker, Howard 6 Bentham, Jeremy 64 Berger, Peter 12, 54 bias, sociological 36, 69, 86 Blumer, Herbert 45–7, 51 Boas, Franz 114–15 Bourdieu, Pierre 3–4, 71–81 Burawoy, Michael 171 bureaucracy 37, 38, 42, 65, 154 Butler, Judith 94–5

Calhoun, Craig 155 capitalism 16

and alienation 27 and bureaucracy 42 and globalization 125–8 and conflict 153, 155, 156 see also Marx and Protestant work ethic 39–41 and race 103 and specialization 42, 49 Castells, Manuel 168 categorization 58, 62

and social constructs 62 and criminology 63 change individuals’ power to 10–12, 28, 86,

102, 141–2, 147, 148, 152–3, 169–71 social institutions’ power to 15, 39, 144 city human ecology of 51 study of 47–51 class consciousness 29 classes, social 24, 26–8, 72, 79–80

in 21st-century Britain 81 bias in education system 72–3, 76

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