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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I: Introductory Themes -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards a Structuralist Sociology of Education -- Chapter 2: Cultural Capital and Muted Groups: The Theoretical Perspective of the Volume -- Chapter 3: Lessons from St Luke's: Women and Cultural Reproduction -- Part II: The Mountains of Inertia and Prejudice: A Structuralist Discussion of the Period 1845-1944 -- Chapter 4: Chaperons, Gloves, and Cycling in Skirts: Strategies Against Pollution in Women's Education -- Chapter 5: Classics, Chemistry, and Cultural Capital -- Chapter 6: Domesticity or Deiilahism? The Debates Over Womanliness and Education -- Part III: Exploring Structuralist Sociology of Education: A Critique of Sociological Accounts for the Period 1945-88 -- Chapter 7: A Country Fit for Heroines? Schooling and Teaching 1945-88 -- Chapter 8: Excluded From the Elite? Women and Top Jobs 1945-85 -- Chapter 9: Mobile or Nubile? Social Stratification, Mobility, Marriage, and Education -- Chapter 10: Professions and Powerlessness: The Inadequacy of the Sociology and the Chauvinism of the Professionals -- Part IV: Conclusions -- Chapter 11: The Old Middle Class Strikes Back -- Appendix 1: The Impact of Feminism in the Sociology of Education -- Appendix 2: A Note on the History of Education -- Appendix 3: Direct-Grant and Independent Schools Aided by the IFASES 1955-63 -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Why has nationalism proved so durable? What are the roots of its appeal? This sharp and accessible book slices through the myths surrounding nationalism and provides an important new perspective on this perennial subject. Nationalism and Social Theory argues that: * nationalism is persistent, not merely because of its specific ideological appeal, but because it expresses some of the major conflicts in modernity * nationalism reflects and reinforces four key trends in Western social development: state formation, democratization, capitalism and the rationalization of culture * the forms of natio

Drawing on what Gary Alan Fine has called a peopled ethnography of two martial arts, one French ( savate), one African-Brazilian ( capoeira), strategies for studying embodied performativity are outlined. The relevance of classic ethnography for the illumination of global social and political issues is explored. The virtues of traditional, "peopled" (re)presentation are vigorously defended as a counter narrative to the vogue for presenting qualitative research results as performance pieces, which has produced monologues, poems, short stories, dialogues, plays, and dance events. Central to the analysis of the latter is a discussion of the academic performance of authenticity, sensitivity, empathy, and sincerity.