Social Sciences: The Big Issues Book

Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Identity Matters: Us and Them 1. What do we mean by Identity? 2. Changing Media, Changing Messages 3. Embodied Identities 4. Buying and Selling; Material Identities 5. Where Do You Come From? Part 3: Citizenship and Social Order 6. Who is a Citizen? What does Citizenship Mean? 7. Weighing Up the Argument 8. The Challenge of Other Arguments 9. Taking Action 10. Thinking Again About Evaluation Part 4: Buying and Selling 11. Processes of Production and Consumption 12. Consumer Society? 13. Where is the Power? Part 5: We Live in a Material World 14. What a Load of Rubbish 15. Waste as Disvalued 16. Inequalitites and Material Effects 16. Material Culture Part 6: Mobilities, Race and Place 17. Mobilities and Diaspora 18. Place 19. Place and Race Part 7: Globaliszation; Opportunities and Inequalities 20. Different Worlds 21. Globalization 22. Movement of People; Migration 23. Different Views; Weighing up the Arguments Part 8: Conclusion