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Culture and identity / by Warren Kidd and Alison Teagle.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Skills-based sociologyPublisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Edition: Second EditionDescription: xii, 264 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137612106 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 306 KID 011706
Contents:
1.Introduction The philosophy behind the book What are culture and identity? The importance and origins of culture and identity Using the skills of sociology Exam focus Study guidance Using concept maps The content of the book 2.Key Issues in the Study of Culture and Identity Introduction What is culture? What is identity? Attempts to define culture Non-sociological uses of the concept of culture Socialization, norms and values Evaluating the concept of culture: three problems Understanding the concept of identity: do not lose sight of the individual Conclusion 3.Classical Views on Culture and Identity Introducing two classical views on culture View one: culture as order - functionalism View two: culture as ideological control - Marxism 4.The Development of 'Action' Sociology and Interactionists The role of meanings and motives in society Georg Simmel Contemporary forms of action sociology 5.Socialization, Self-Identity and the Life Course Socialization Self-identity and the map of one's life The life course Age and ageing Returning to the relationship between the individual and society 6.How Much Agency Do Individuals Have in Culture? Thinking using culture: the creative self Clarifying what is meant by 'agency' Reflexivity 7.Modern and Postmodern Culture and Identity What is modernity? What is postmodernity? Postmodern identities Evaluation of postmodernism Theories of risk 8.Mass Culture and Popular Culture Basic definitions The 'mass society thesis' Who exactly are the masses? Postmodernity and popular culture Technological developments and their impact on culture 9.Youth Culture and Subculture The historical development of subcultural study Subcultural solutions to the problems of society Gramsci, the CCCS and hegemony The CCCS and semiology The historical rise of youth culture Is there a postmodern youth culture? Gender and youth culture Rethinking subculture 10.Semiology, Structuralism and Poststructuralism Semiology and structuralism Applying the semiological method Structuralism and anthropology: Claude Levi-Strauss Structuralism and Marxism: Louis Althusser Structural feminism Postmodernism and signs Poststructuralism 11.Class and Consumption A theoretical review of class identity The historical treatment of class culture and identity From production to consumption Recent analysis of class culture and identity 12.Sex and Gender: Femininity and Masculinity Feminist theory and research into femininity Gender socialization Postmodern theory and gender Masculinity Sexuality The 'knowing construction of identity' 13.Ethnicity and Identity Defining 'ethnicity' Ethnicity, inequality and power Diaspora, hybridity, multiculturalism and globalization Ethnic identity and choice 14.Community, Nation and Globalization Modernity and the decline of community National identity The importance of time and space Understanding globalization Conclusion.
Summary: An understanding of culture and identity is essential for new sociologists. This student-focused text explains the themes and theories behind these core ideas. With up-to-date discussion of chavs, masculinity and social networking, skills-based activities and a new chapter on research, this is invaluable reading for anyone new to this topic.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Introduction
The philosophy behind the book
What are culture and identity?
The importance and origins of culture and identity
Using the skills of sociology
Exam focus
Study guidance
Using concept maps
The content of the book
2.Key Issues in the Study of Culture and Identity
Introduction
What is culture?
What is identity?
Attempts to define culture
Non-sociological uses of the concept of culture
Socialization, norms and values
Evaluating the concept of culture: three problems
Understanding the concept of identity: do not lose sight of the individual
Conclusion
3.Classical Views on Culture and Identity
Introducing two classical views on culture
View one: culture as order - functionalism
View two: culture as ideological control - Marxism
4.The Development of 'Action' Sociology and Interactionists
The role of meanings and motives in society
Georg Simmel
Contemporary forms of action sociology
5.Socialization, Self-Identity and the Life Course
Socialization
Self-identity and the map of one's life
The life course
Age and ageing
Returning to the relationship between the individual and society
6.How Much Agency Do Individuals Have in Culture?
Thinking using culture: the creative self
Clarifying what is meant by 'agency'
Reflexivity
7.Modern and Postmodern Culture and Identity
What is modernity?
What is postmodernity?
Postmodern identities
Evaluation of postmodernism
Theories of risk
8.Mass Culture and Popular Culture
Basic definitions
The 'mass society thesis'
Who exactly are the masses?
Postmodernity and popular culture
Technological developments and their impact on culture
9.Youth Culture and Subculture
The historical development of subcultural study
Subcultural solutions to the problems of society
Gramsci, the CCCS and hegemony
The CCCS and semiology
The historical rise of youth culture
Is there a postmodern youth culture?
Gender and youth culture
Rethinking subculture
10.Semiology, Structuralism and Poststructuralism
Semiology and structuralism
Applying the semiological method
Structuralism and anthropology: Claude Levi-Strauss
Structuralism and Marxism: Louis Althusser
Structural feminism
Postmodernism and signs
Poststructuralism
11.Class and Consumption
A theoretical review of class identity
The historical treatment of class culture and identity
From production to consumption
Recent analysis of class culture and identity
12.Sex and Gender: Femininity and Masculinity
Feminist theory and research into femininity
Gender socialization
Postmodern theory and gender
Masculinity
Sexuality
The 'knowing construction of identity'
13.Ethnicity and Identity
Defining 'ethnicity'
Ethnicity, inequality and power
Diaspora, hybridity, multiculturalism and globalization
Ethnic identity and choice
14.Community, Nation and Globalization
Modernity and the decline of community
National identity
The importance of time and space
Understanding globalization
Conclusion.

An understanding of culture and identity is essential for new sociologists. This student-focused text explains the themes and theories behind these core ideas. With up-to-date discussion of chavs, masculinity and social networking, skills-based activities and a new chapter on research, this is invaluable reading for anyone new to this topic.

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