Beschreibung:
Written by a leading sociologist of Scotland, this ground-breaking new introduction is a comprehensive account of the social, political, economic and cultural processes at work in contemporary Scottish society.
When Was Scotland?Making Modern Scotland: The Story of the Twentieth CenturyWhat is Scotland?Scotland's PeopleThe Scottish Way of DeathWho Runs Scotland?Inequality, Poverty and PowerMaking a LivingSocial Class and Social OpportunityScottish Education and Scottish Society - Lindsay PatersonGendering ScotlandSocial Order: Crime and Justice in Scotland - Susan McVie'Race' and Ethnicity in ScotlandReligion: Have Scots Become Godless People? - Steve BruceBelonging: Placing People'Nothing But Heather': Scotland as CountryWilful Fragments: Charactersing Scottish CultureNational Identity: Who Do We Think We Are?Politics and National Identity'My Granny was a Mctavish': Claiming Diaspora IdentityPlaying for the NationSeeing Ourselves: The Media in ScotlandScotland and Stuff: The Sociology of Consumption and Life styleScotland and the WorldEpilogueAppendix: Timeline, 1900-2016