Experiencing Identity.
Title:
Experiencing Identity.
Author:
Craib, Ian.
ISBN:
9780857026064
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (199 pages)
Series:
Social Theory
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1 - Introduction: Sociology and Identity -- Part I: Identity, Experience and Politics -- 2 - Lukacs: Experience, Identity and Philosophy -- 3 - The Politics of Experience -- 4 - Psychoanalysis, Experience and Politics: The Problem of Ambivalence -- Part II: Identity, Experience and Sociology -- 5 - Back to Utopia: Giddens and Modern Social Theory -- 6 - Goffman: Frame Analysis -- 7 - Masculinity and Male Dominance -- 8 - The Sociology of the Emotions -- 9 - Sociological Literature and Literary Sociology: Some Notes on John Bergers's G -- Part III: Identity, Experience and Psychoanalysis -- 10 - Freud and Philosophy -- 11 - The Psychodynamics of Theory -- 12 - What's Happening to Mourning? -- 13 - Conclusion: Experiencing Identity -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
`I recommend this book to all readers interested in thinking about the self; I am sure that anyone who reads it will come away with some new ideas' - Therapeutic Communities This critical and comprehensive examination of the relation of theory and identity discusses definitions of identity in classical social theory, modern social theory and psychoanalysis. The introduction is a critique of existing sociological accounts of identity, arguing that these are incurably cognitive, treating the people that they study as incapable of experiencing an internal life or internal space. The book then considers the implications of this in social theory and human practice.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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