Table of Contents:
  • Conjectured history, sociology and social change in eighteenth century Scotland : Adam Ferguson and the division of labour / John D. Brewer
  • Nationality, social change and class / John Foster
  • Scotland is different, OK? / Tony Dickson
  • Scotland, social change and politics / Steve Kendrick
  • Shetland in the world economy / R.J. Smith
  • Welfare, government and the working class : Scotland, 1845-1894 / Ian Levitt
  • Patronage and professionalism : the "forgotten middle class", 1760-1860 / A.A. MacLaren
  • The domestication of "fallen" women : the Glasgow Magdalene Institution, 1860-1890 / Linda Mahood
  • Representing Scotland / David McCrone
  • The social construction of tradition : the Restoration portraits and the Kings of Scotland / S. Bruce and S. Yearley
  • Culture, social development and the Scottish Highland gatherings / Grant Jarvie
  • "We're off to Wembley": the history of a Scottish event and the sociology of football hooliganism / H.F. Moorhouse.