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Category: Culture and Identity

  • Post and Late Modern Perspectives on Society and Identity

    This is intended to be an uber-brief summary, for fuller accounts please see other relevant posts.  The postmodern view of society  Globalisation destablises social structures Consumer culture floats free from other institutions The media and hyperreality are important There is much more diversity The End of Metanarratives The corresponding postmodern view of identity Individuals identities are…

  • Giddens: Modernity and Self-Identity – Introduction and Chapter One (A Summary)

    Anthony Giddens is one of the world’s leading sociologists and one of the main critics of Postmodern thought – and should be taught as part of the second year A level Sociology module in Theory and Methods. Below is a summary of one of his major works – Modernity and Self-Identity (the introduction and chapter…

  • Giddens – Modernity and Self-Identity

    A brief summary of Anthony Giddens’ work on the relationship between the self and society in late-modern age. Self-identity, history, modernity. Drawing on a therapeutic text – ‘Self-Therapy’ by Janette Rainwater – Giddens selects ten features which are distinctive about the search for self-identity in the late modern age: The self is seen as a…

  • Gender Identity and Education

    This post looks at how the experience of school can reinforce children’s gender identities. Research on the development of gender identity has shown that children become keen to demonstrate their awareness and knowledge of gender at the age of five to six. Consequently, seven to eight year olds have a relatively well-established sense of gender…