ISBN:
9780429857546
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (179 pages)
Series Statement:
Key Ideas Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
155.927
Keywords:
Sociology-Philosophy
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The practice of estrangement -- What is practice? -- Conclusion -- References -- 1. The city: Georg Simmel on the stranger -- Influence of Simmel -- The city as a lifeline -- Bridge and door -- Life as transcendence -- How is society possible? -- The third -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. The suburbs and the world: Norbert Elias on incorporation of the stranger -- On the process of civilisation -- Elias on Jews in history -- Involvement and detachment -- Established-outsider figuration -- Incorporation -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. The camps and the stranger: Bauman -- The stranger in solid modernity -- The stranger in postmodernity -- The stranger in liquid modernity -- Marc Augé on the non-place -- Narrenschiff -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. The asylum and the self: Erving Goffman on the stigma and the stranger -- Presentation of self in everyday life -- What is 'the definition of the situation'? -- Moral career and the process of estrangement -- The stranger and the stigmatised -- Tribal stigma: race, nation and religion -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. The banlieue: Pierre Bourdieu and the excluded urban poor -- Practice -- Habitus -- Capital -- Symbolic violence -- Incorporation -- Habitus clivé -- Loïc Wacquant: from social state to penal state -- Precarity -- 'Chavs' and ideologies of decline -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion: the stranger in contemporary society -- Reference -- Index.
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