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Identity : sociological perspectives

Title
Identity : sociological perspectives / Steph Lawler.
Author
Lawler, Steph, 1958-
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2008.

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Description
vii, 168 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"This book will be essential reading on upper-level courses across the social sciences that focus on the compelling issues surrounding identity."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Group identity
  • Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects
  • Social Identification
  • group identity
  • Group identity
  • Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects
  • Gruppenidentität
  • Sozialisation
  • Soziale Identität
  • Gruppidentitet
  • Identitet (psykologi)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-159) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: identity as a question -- 2. Stories, memories, identities -- 3. Who do you think you are? Kinship, inheritance and identity -- 4. Becoming ourselves: governing and/through identities -- 5. I desire therefore I am: unconscious selves -- 6. Masquerading as ourselves: self-impersonation and social life -- 7. The hidden privileges of identity: on being middle class -- Afterword: identity ties.
ISBN
  • 074563575X
  • 0745635768
  • 9780745635750
  • 9780745635767
LCCN
2008273664
OCLC
  • ocn156812578
  • 156812578
  • SCSB-1460745
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library