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| Other authors / contributors: | Woodward, Kath.
Open University.
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| ISBN: | 0203392132
9780203392133
9780415329675
0415329671
9780415329682
041532968X
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| Notes: | Previous edition: 2000.
Published in association with the Open University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-113) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these challenges and opportunities work out in practice. What is really happening when people either individually or in groups identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out to take up new identities? Do gender, class and ethnicity offer some stability and even certainty about who we are, or are they to be seen as limitations on our freedom to choose our own identities? Are we in the end bound by the social constraints and inequalities with which we started out?This key text is essential reading for all students starting out in the social sciences and for anyone with an interest in the dilemmas of identity-making in contemporary society.
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| Other form: | Print version: Questioning identity. 2nd ed. London : Routledge, 2004 0415329671 041532968X
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| Govt.docs classification: | CRI2104
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