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Author Lawler, Steph, 1958-

Title Identity : sociological perspectives / Steph Lawler
Published Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2008

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Description vii, 168 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Introduction: identity as a question -- 2. Stories, memories, identities -- 3. Who do you think you are? Kinship, inheritance and identity -- 4. Becoming ourselves: governing and/through identities -- 5. I desire therefore I am: unconscious selves -- 6. Masquerading as ourselves: self-impersonation and social life -- 7. The hidden privileges of identity: on being middle class -- Afterword: identity ties
Summary "This book will be essential reading on upper-level courses across the social sciences that focus on the compelling issues surrounding identity."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-159) and index
Subject Group identity.
Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects.
LC no. 2008273664
ISBN 074563575X hardback
0745635768 paperback
9780745635750 hardback
9780745635767 paperback