The Stranger

ISBN-13: 9781138312197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 172 str.

Shaun Best

Opis

This book explores the concept of the stranger as a ‘modern’ social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel’s influential essay ‘The Stranger’.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Practice of Estrangement  1. The City, Georg Simmel on the Stranger  2. The Suburbs and The World: Norbert Elias on Incorporation of The Stranger  3. The Camps and The Stranger: Zygmunt Bauman  4. The Asylum and The Self: Erving Goffman on The Stigma and The Stranger  5. The Banlieue: Pierre Bourdieu and The Excluded Urban Poor  Conclusion: The Stranger in Contemporary Society

O autorze

Shaun Best is a senior lecturer in the School of Education and Liberal Arts at the University of Winchester,UK. His teaching is in the field of social inclusion and exclusion, and he publishes regularly in national and international journals. He has a portfolio of innovative publications including Research Methods: Understanding and Doing Successful Social Research and Understanding Social Divisions.