Identity in the 21st century
Subtitle: new trends in changing times
By: edited by Margaret Wetherell
Series: Identity studies in the social sciences
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230580879
Other titles: Identity in the twenty-first century
Description: "Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary social life, this book examines the current patterning of identities based on class and community, gender and generation, race, faith and ethnicity, and derived from popular culture, exploring debates about social change, individualization and the re-making of social class"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction - Negotiating Liveable Lives: Intelligibility and Identity in Contemporary Britain; title: M.WetherellPart I: CLASS AND COMMUNITY Individualisation and the Decline of Class Identity; A.Heath, J.Curtice & G.ElgeniusI Don't Want to be Classed, But We Are All Classed: Making Liveable Lives Across Generations; B.Rogaly & B.TaylorSteel, Identity, Community: Regenerating Identities in a South Wales Town; V.WalkerdineWhite Middle-Class Identity Work Through Against the Grain School Choices; title: D.James, D.Reay, G.Crozier, F.Jamieson, P.Beedell, S.Hollingworth & K.Williams Part II: ETHNICITIES AND ENCOUNTERSEthnicities Without Guarantees: An Empirical Approach; R.Harris & B.RamptonCon-Viviality and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Mens Prison; R.Earle & C.PhillipsImagining the Other/Figuring Encounter: White English Middle-Class and Working-Class Identifications; S.Clarke, S.Garner &; title: R.GilmourThe Subjectivities of Young Somali: The Impact of Processes of Disidentification and Disavowal; G.Valentine & D.SportonLiving London: Women Negotiating Identities in a Post-Colonial City; R.Cox, S.Jackson, M.Khatwa & D.KiwanPart III: Popular Culture and Relationality The Making of Modern Motherhoods: Storying an Emergent Identity; R.Thomson, M.J.Kehily, L.Hadfield & S.SharpeThe Allure of Belonging: Young Peoples Drinking Practices and Collective Identification; title: C.Griffin, A.Bengry-Howell, C.Hackley, W.Mistral & I.SzmiginThe Transformation of Intimacy: Classed Identities in the Moral Economy of Reality Television; B.Skeggs & H.Wood.