Questions of cultural identity

Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of m...

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Main Authors: Hall, Stuart, Du Gay, Paul
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: London Sage 1996
SAGE Publications Ltd
Sage Publications
Edition:1st edition.
Subjects:
Bureaucracy
Contemporary culture
Critical theory
Cultural identity
Cultural sociology
Cultural Studies (general)
Cultural values
Culture
Europe
Group identity
Identity
Identity (Psychology)
Interdisciplinary approach
Modernization
Music
National identity
Organizational change
Psychology
Self & Identity
Social change
Sociology
Türkiye
Türkiye
Europe
ISBN:9780803978836, 9780803978829, 0803978839, 0803978820
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Who Needs ‘Identity’? -- From Pilgrim to Tourist – or a Short History of Identity -- Enabling Identity?: Biology, Choice and the New Reproductive Technologies -- Culture's In-Between -- Interrupting Identities: Turkey/Europe -- Identity and Cultural Studies: Is That all There is? -- Music and Identity -- Identity, Genealogy, History -- Organizing Identity: Entrepreneurial Governance and Public Management -- The Citizen and the Man about Town