Social selves : theories of self and society

✍ Scribed by Ian Burkitt

Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted in such a useful way, and in such an assured and accessible text. This completely reworked second edition retains all of these virtues, and takes the original analysis into new territory, not least with new chapters on gender and class. If you're interested in identity - particularly how identity 'works' - this book is essential reading ' - Richard Jenkins, Professor of Sociology, Sheffield Univer. Read more... COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 SOCIETY AND THE SELF; 2 DIALOGUE AND THE SOCIAL SELF; 3 ETHICS, SELF AND PERFORMATIVITY; 4 POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND THE SELF; 5 GENDER, SEXUALITY AND IDENTITY; 6 SOCIAL RELATIONS, SOCIAL CLASS AND THE SELF; 7 SELF IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY; 8 CONCLUSION; INDEX

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