A term of antique provenance, identity has developed and cohered
into a critical concept in contemporary social and cultural
analysis. However, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of
the available research exploring the many, often controversial,
issues attendant upon identity and the breadth and complexity of
the canon on which it draws makes it difficult to discriminate the
useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why
this new title in the highly regarded Routledge series, Critical
Concepts in Sociology, is so timely. It answers the urgent need for
a wide-ranging collection to provide easy access to the key items
of scholarly literature, material that is often inaccessible or
scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and
books.
In four volumes, this new collection addresses key theories of
identity, ranging from classical accounts to postmodern,
psychoanalytic, and feminist approaches. Substantive sections
interrogate racial, ethnic, gendered, queer, consumerist, virtual,
and global identities, amongst others. Moreover, the gathered
materials also make sense of the revolutionary effects that debates
on identity continue to have on research agendas and ways of
thinking in sociology, and across the social sciences and
humanities more generally.
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Identity" is supplemented with a full index, and includes a
comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which
places the collected material in its historical and intellectual
context. It is destined to be valued by scholars and students, and
researchers as a vital resource.
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