Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Probably, Minister …’: the ‘Strong Programme’ Approach to the Relationship between Research and Policy

Chapter 4 Naming Difference: Race-thinking, Common Sense and Sociology

Chapter 5 Consanguinity and Related Demons: Science and Racism in the Debate on Consanguinity and Birth Outcome

Chapter 6 Representations of Asians’ Mental Health in British Psychiatry

Chapter 7 Difference in the City: Locating Marginal Use of Public Space

Chapter 8 No Key — No Door? Young People’s Access to Housing

Chapter 9 ‘Island Homes for Island People’: Competition, Conflict and Racism in the Battle over Public Housing on the Isle of Dogs

Chapter 10 Contracting Knowledge: Commissioned Research and the Sociology of the Environment

Chapter 11 Us and Them: The Construction and Maintenance of Divisions in a Planning Dispute

Chapter 12 Inter-organisational Negotiations in Political Decision-making: Brussels’ EC Bureaucrats and the Environment