Social Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415706919 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 264 str.

Richard Jenkins

Opis

The fourth edition of Social Identity builds on the international success of previous editions, offering a concise, comprehensive and readable critical introduction to social science theories of identity for advance undergraduates and postgraduates.

Spis treści

1. Identity Matters  2. Similarity and Difference  3. A Sign of the Times?  4. Understanding Identification  5. Selfhood and Mind  6. Embodied Selves  7. Entering the Human World  8. Self-Image and Public Image  9. Groups and Categories  10. Beyond Boundaries  11. Symbolising Belonging  12. Uncertainty and Predictability  13. Institutionalising Identification  14. Organising Identification  15. Categorisation and Consequences  16. Identity and Modernity Revisited

O autorze

Richard Jenkins is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Trained as a social anthropologist, he has done research in Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Denmark, and written Foundations of Sociology (2002), Pierre Bourdieu (2004), Rethinking Ethnicity (2008) and Being Danish (2012).