Identity: sociological perspectives
"Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others see and define us reveal about our social world? Why do we attach such significance to 'being ourselves'? In this new edition of her popular and inviting introduction, Steph Lawler examines a range of important debates about identity. Taking a …
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- Full title :Identity : sociological perspectives / Steph Lawler.
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"Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others see and define us reveal about our social world? Why do we attach such significance to 'being ourselves'? In this new edition of her popular and inviting introduction, Steph Lawler examines a range of important debates about identity. Taking a sociological perspective, she shows how identity is produced and embedded in social relationships and how it is worked out in the practice of people's everyday lives"--Couverture, page [4].
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- Publication Date:2014
- Edition:Second edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 210 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780745654157, 9780745654164, 0745654150, 0745654169
- oclc:ocn869789995
- LC Classification:HM753
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Identity as a Question; 2. Stories, Memories, Identities; 3. Who Do You Think You Are? Kinship, Inheritance and Identity; 4. Becoming Ourselves: Governing and/through Identities; 5. I Desire Therefore I Am: Unconscious Selves; 6. Masquerading as Ourselves: Self-Impersonation and Social Life; 7. The Hidden Privileges of Identity: On Being Middle Class; 8. Identity Politics, Identity and Politics.
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