Social Identity, 2nd edition (Key Ideas)

✍ Scribed by Richard Jenkins

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 229
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Without social identity there is no human world. Without frameworks of similarity and difference, people would be unable to relate to each other in a consistent and meaningful fashion. In the second edition of this highly successful text, Richard Jenkins develops his argument that identity is both individual and collective, and should therefore be considered within one analytic framework. Using the work of major social theorists, such as Mead Goffman and Barthes, to explore the experience of identity in everyday life, Jenkins considers a range of different issues, including: embodiment categorization and boundaries the institutionalizing of identities identity and modernity. Written in an open and student-friendly style throughout, this multidisciplinary text has been thoroughly revised and updated, and is essential reading for all students interested in the concept of identity in the contemporary world.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
Knowing who's who......Page 12
A sign of the times?......Page 19
Understanding identification......Page 26
Selfhood and mind......Page 38
Embodied selves......Page 49
Entering the human world......Page 63
Self-image and public image......Page 79
Groups and categories......Page 90
Beyond boundaries......Page 105
Symbolising belonging......Page 119
Predictability......Page 135
Institutionalising identification......Page 143
Organising identification......Page 156
Categorisation and consequences......Page 171
Why identity matters in the modern world......Page 187
NOTES......Page 195
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 200
INDEX......Page 221

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