What is Individualisation?
where individuals are forced to spend more time and effort deciding on what choices to make.
Culture and Identity
identity
Neoliberalism and The New Right
What is the Neoliberal Subject?
What are the key aspects of the neoliberal subject? Below is a brief summary of some of the key theorizing
Culture and Identity, Digital nomads, Media
Mobile Phones and Digital Nomadism
Mobile phones seem to be having a profound impact on the way we interact with each other and on how
Book summaries, Culture and Identity
Erving Goffman and Judith Butler’s Perspectives on Identity
A summary of one chapter from Steph Lawler’s Book – ‘Identity: Sociological Perspectives’ – Masquerading as ourselves: Self-Impersonation and Social
Crime and Deviance
Cultural Criminology – consumerism and the changing crime
Cultural criminology seeks to understand how consumer culture has changed the motives and nature of crime in contemporary society. Cultural
Culture and Identity, Ethnicity, Sociology on TV
Nadiya Hussain’s Gift to A Level Sociology
The Chronicles of Nadiya, fronted by last year’s Bake-Off winner Nadiya Hussain, is a surprisingly solid piece of sociological TV.
Book summaries, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim, Social Theories
Sociological Perspectives on Identity (1)
A brief summary of Steph Lawler’s ‘Identity’ – Chapter One – Stories, Memories, Identities Introduction: living lives and telling stories
Book summaries
The Hidden Privileges of Identity: On Being Middle Class
A summary of Steph Lawler’s ‘Sociological Perspectives on Identity’, chapter 7 During summer 2000 and in January 2001, there were
Book summaries, Social Theories
Sociological Perspectives on Identity
A summary of Michel Foucault’s work on identity, deviance and normality, governmentality, subjectification and technologies of the self, taken from
Book summaries
Giddens – Modernity and Self Identity Chapter Two
A brief summary of Anthony Giddens’ Modernity and Self Identity – chapter two – in which he focuses on the