Identity And Social Change

Author : Joseph E. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351513906

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Identity and Social Change examines the thorny problem of modern identity. Trenchant critiques have come from identity politics, focusing on the construction of difference and the solidarity of minorities, and from academic deconstructions of modern subjectivity. This volume places identity in a broader sociological context of destabilizing and reintegrating forces. The contributors first explore identity in light of economic changes, consumerism, and globalization, then focus on the question of identity dissolution. Zygmunt Bauman examines the effects of consumerism and considers the constraints these place on the disadvantaged. Drawing together discourses of the body and globalization, David Harvey considers the growth of the wage labor system worldwide and its consequences for worker consciousness. Mike Featherstone outlines a rethinking of citizenship and identity formation in light of the realities of globalization and new information technologies. Part two opens with Robert Dunn's examination of cultural commodification and the attenuation of social relations. He argues that the media and marketplace are part of a general destabilization of identity formation. Kenneth Gergen maintains that proliferating communications technologies undermine the traditional conceptions of self and community and suggest the need for a new base for building the moral society. In the final chapter, Harvie Ferguson argues that despite the contemporary infatuation with irony, the decline of the notion of the self as an inner depth effectively severs the long connection between irony and identity.

Author : Rusi Jaspal,Glynis M. Breakwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107022706

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Identity Process Theory by Rusi Jaspal,Glynis M. Breakwell Pdf

World-renowned social psychologists present some of the key developments in identity process theory, examining identity, social action and social change.

Author : Cynthia Chou,Susanne Kerner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030843717

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Food, Social Change and Identity by Cynthia Chou,Susanne Kerner Pdf

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening? What triggers change and how are the changes impacting identity politics? In terms of scope and organization, this book offers a vast historical extent ranging from the 5th mill BCE to the present day. In addition, it presents case studies from across the world, including Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and America. Finally, this collection of essays presents diverse perspectives and differing methodologies. It is an accessible introduction to the study of food, social change and identity.

Author : Glynis Marie Breakwell,Evanthia Lyons
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0750630086

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Changing European Identities by Glynis Marie Breakwell,Evanthia Lyons Pdf

The political structure of Europe has changed and continues to do so. The changing allegiances of the popluations of Europe pose problems and challenges for social psychological theory. Changing European Identities explores these issues using social identity theory and alternative models such as alienation theory and representational identity theory. It provides a highly topical and relevant context for exploring the validity and limits of current theories. Providing a valuable new perspective on people's reactions to change in Europe, it will be useful for advanced scholars in psychology and other social and political sciences.

Author : Jamie Frueh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791487754

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Political Identity and Social Change by Jamie Frueh Pdf

Explores issues of political identity and the social changes that ended apartheid in South Africa.

Author : David Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317691723

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Religious Identity and Social Change by David Radford Pdf

Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transformation exploring significant questions concerning why people convert and what happens when they do so. A crisis of identity occurs when religious conversion takes place, especially from one major religious tradition (Islam) to another (Christianity); and where religious identity is intimately connected to ethnic and national identity. Radford argues for the importance of recognising the socially constructed nature of identity involving the dynamic interplay between human agency, culture and social networks. Kyrgyz Christians have been active agents in bringing religious and identity transformation building upon the contextual parameters in which they are situated.

Author : Viviane Namaste
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 9780889614833

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Sex Change, Social Change by Viviane Namaste Pdf

Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism provides readers with an authoritative introduction to contemporary transsexual politics in Canadian and Québécois contexts. Through different case studies relating to the law, human rights, health care, and prostitution, Dr. Namaste exposes readers to the complex issues involved in how transsexual politics and feminism interrelate. Written in accessible language, and including interviews, essays, and political speeches, Sex Change, Social Change will appeal to academics and to activists in the community, as well as to the general reader. The second edition has been thoroughly updated with five new chapters and includes new commentary on the readings from the first edition. All royalties from the sale of this book go to PASAN (Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network), in particular their emergency fund that provides modest amounts of money to prisoners upon their release. These funds enable people to secure housing, go to a job interview, and/or replace their identity documents.

Author : David Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317691716

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Religious Identity and Social Change by David Radford Pdf

Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transformation exploring significant questions concerning why people convert and what happens when they do so. A crisis of identity occurs when religious conversion takes place, especially from one major religious tradition (Islam) to another (Christianity); and where religious identity is intimately connected to ethnic and national identity. Radford argues for the importance of recognising the socially constructed nature of identity involving the dynamic interplay between human agency, culture and social networks. Kyrgyz Christians have been active agents in bringing religious and identity transformation building upon the contextual parameters in which they are situated.

Author : M. Bracher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230601468

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Radical Pedagogy by M. Bracher Pdf

Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science. It explains how developing identity is a prerequisite for developing intelligence, personal well being, and the amelioration of social problems, including violence, prejudice and substance abuse.

Author : Karen Tracy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190217976

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Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates by Karen Tracy Pdf

Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state marriage laws. The book's analysis spans ten years, beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal government's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and it particularly focuses on how social change was accomplished through and reflected in these law-making and law-interpreting discourses. Focal materials are the eight cases about same-sex marriage and civil unions that were argued in state supreme courts between 2005 and 2009, and six of a larger number of hearings that occurred in state judicial committees considering bills regarding who should be able to marry. Tracy concludes with analysis of the 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DOMA, comparing it to the initial 1996 hearing and to the 2013 Supreme Court oral argument about it. The book shows that social change occurred as the public discourse that treated sexual orientation as a "lifestyle" was replaced with a public discourse of gays and lesbians as a legitimate category of citizen.

Author : Sheldon Stryker,Timothy Joseph Owens,Robert W. White
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816634084

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Self, Identity, and Social Movements by Sheldon Stryker,Timothy Joseph Owens,Robert W. White Pdf

Bridging psychology and sociology, this volume demonstrates the importance of self, identity, and self-esteem in analyzing and understanding social movements. The scholars gathered here provide a cohesive picture of how self and identity bear on social movement recruitment, activism, and maintenance. The result is a timely contribution to the social movements literature and to a greater understanding of the social and psychological forces at work within them.

Author : Heidi Egginton,Zoë Thomas
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912702592

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Precarious Professionals by Heidi Egginton,Zoë Thomas Pdf

Author : Patrick O'Mahony,Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230286443

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Rethinking Irish History by Patrick O'Mahony,Gerard Delanty Pdf

This book provides a critical interpretation of the construction of Irish national identity in the longer perspective of history. Drawing on recent sociological theory, the authors demonstrate how national identity was invented and codified by a nationalist intelligentsia in the late nineteenth century. The trajectory of this national identity is traced as a process of crisis and contradiction. One of the central arguments is that the negative implications of Irish national identity have never been fully explored by social science.

Author : Gregory M. Maney
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social change
ISBN : 9780816672899

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Strategies for Social Change by Gregory M. Maney Pdf

Examines how strategies within social movements develop and work

Author : Philip S. Brenner,Jan E. Stets,Richard T. Serpe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783030769666

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Identities in Action by Philip S. Brenner,Jan E. Stets,Richard T. Serpe Pdf

This volume presents recent developments in identity theory and research. Identities are the basic building blocks of society and hold a central place in every social science discipline. Identity theory provides a systematic conceptualization of identities and their relationship to behavior. The research in this volume demonstrates the usefulness of this theory for understanding identities in action in a variety of areas and settings. The volume is organized into three general areas: ethnicity and race; family, religion, and work; and networks, homophily, and the physical environment. This comprehensive and authoritative volume is of interest to a wide readership in the social and behavioral sciences, including students and researchers of sociology, social psychology, psychology, and other social science disciplines.