Identity
A Reader
Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation.
The Identity Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students of cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and sociology.
The key statements are from the work of:
Louis Althusser, Jessica Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Homi K Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Ian Craib, Jacques D[ac]errida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Pierre Hadot, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Christopher Lasch, Isabel Menzies, Lyth, T H Marshall, Marcel Mauss, Am[gr]elie Okensberg Rorty, Jacqueline Rose, Nikolas Rose, Michael Rustin, Kaja Silverman, Max Weber, D W Winnicott
A very valuable text - key themes located within 3 parts. From language, ideology and discourse to identity, sociology & history
Paul du Gay has excelled himself in presenting this interesting volume. He draws from writers in many disciples such as Sociology and Psychology to illuminate what 'Identity' means. I especially enjoyed Stuart Hall's contribution. This book is essential to anyone wishing to consider identity as a concept academically.
Great selection of fundamental material and key texts to the realms of "identity".
This edited book offers critical debate towards the contested concept of identity. It provides students with a number of positions in which they can use to critically develop their ideas on the subject.
Whilst an excellent book, considered to take students in a direction that was too specialist for the Module that was taught.
This book consist all necesery source texts about identity, but they tend to be academically challanging for students on second year of undergraduate degree.
A fascinating insight as to how culture, language and social relations affect peoples communication and identity. Can be used for both Psychology and Sociology based courses.
An excellent text highlighting the work of key scholars discussing the complex area of identity. This comprehensive text offeres students the opportunity to gain an insight into this topic from a variety of perspectives. Highly Recommended.
A brilliantly organized text which places a huge amount of theoretical material at the readers' finger tips. The chapter on Pierre Bourdieu is particularly excellent.
This is an absolutely fantastic book which allows students to get to grips with some of the most important theorists working within this area. Each chapter is short and accessible without being too simplistic. Highly recommended.
