Culture and Identity - Kidd, Warren
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This book takes the themes of culture and identity and applies these to a range of crucial sociological debates. The book explores a variety of theoretical perspectives, from classical theories drawn from Marx, Weber and Durkheim to the modern and postmodern thinking of such theorists as Giddens, Beck, Foucault and Baudrillard. The second part of the book then examines a wide spectrum of important substantive areas including youth cultures, consumption, gender and sexuality, and ethnic and national identity, taking a practical and student-centred approach throughout.
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Produktbeschreibung
This book takes the themes of culture and identity and applies these to a range of crucial sociological debates. The book explores a variety of theoretical perspectives, from classical theories drawn from Marx, Weber and Durkheim to the modern and postmodern thinking of such theorists as Giddens, Beck, Foucault and Baudrillard. The second part of the book then examines a wide spectrum of important substantive areas including youth cultures, consumption, gender and sexuality, and ethnic and national identity, taking a practical and student-centred approach throughout.

Table of contents:
Introduction
Key Issues in the Study of Culture and Identity
'Classical' Views on Culture and Identity
Socialisation, Identity and the Life-Course: The Development of 'Action' Sociology
How much 'Agency' do Individuals have in Culture
The' New Sociology' of Culture and Identity: Modernity and Postmodernity
Mass Culture and Popular Culture
Youth Culture and Sub-Culture
Semiology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Class and Consumption
Feminism, Gender and Sexuality
Ethnicity and Identity
Community, Nation and Globalization
References
Autorenporträt
WARREN KIDD teaches A level Sociology at Newham Sixth Form College, London. He is the co-author, with Liz Steel, of ‘The Family’, also in the ‘Skills-Based Sociology’ series, and of ‘Sociology in Perspective’, an introductory A level text published by Heinemann in 1997.