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. INDICE: Introduction - Negotiating Liveable Lives: Intelligibility and Identity in Contemporary Britain; M.Wetherell - Part I: CLASS AND COMMUNITY - Individualisation and the Decline of Class Identity; A.Heath, J.Curtice ; G.Elgenius - 'I Don't Want to be Classed, But We Are All Classed': Making Liveable Lives Across Generations; B.Rogaly ; B.Taylor - Steel, Identity, Community: Regenerating Identities in a South Wales Town; V.Walkerdine - White Middle-Class Identity Work Through 'Against the Grain' School Choices; D.James, D.Reay, G.Crozier, F.Jamieson, P.Beedell, S.Hollingworth ; K.Williams - Part II: ETHNICITIES AND ENCOUNTERS - Ethnicities Without Guarantees: An Empirical Approach; R.Harris ; B.Rampton - 'Con-Viviality' and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men's Prison; R.Earle ; C.Phillips - Imagining the 'Other'/Figuring Encounter: White English Middle-Class and Working-Class Identifications; S.Clarke, S.Garner ; R.Gilmour - The Subjectivities of Young Somali: The Impact of Processes of Disidentification and Disavowal; G.Valentine ; D.Sporton - Living London: Women Negotiating Identities in a Post-Colonial City; R.Cox, S.Jackson, M.Khatwa; D.Kiwan - Part III: Popular Culture and Relationality - The Making of Modern Motherhoods: Storying an Emergent Identity; R.Thomson, M.J.Kehily, L.Hadfield ; S.Sharpe - The Allure of Belonging: Young People's Drinking Practices and Collective Identification; C.Griffin, A.Bengry-Howell, C.Hackley, W.Mistral ; I.Szmigin - The Transformation of Intimacy: Classed Identities in the Moral Economy of Reality Television; B.Skeggs ; H.Wood
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58087-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 05/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés