ISBN:
9780521662796
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (250 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Struggles for Subjectivity
DDC:
305.235
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines the urgent social and cultural questions faced by young people today
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Dedication; Struggles for Subjectivity; Cambridge Cultural Social Studies; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Research participants; 1: Introduction: subjectivity and social experience; The new social experience of youth; Personal identity, social experience; The sociology of experience; Structure of this book; The transcript material; PART I: The end of a working-class experience; Westview; A sociological intervention; Three terrains of action; 2: You come from the bad side: exploring social experience; Between community and a world without norms; Community affirmation
Description / Table of Contents:
A world without normsSocial disorganisation; The meanings of violence; Theft; Family and Generation; Death of the suburb; Personal disorganisation; Opportunity and exclusion; The meanings of work; The meanings of place; Beyond the groups; 3: Something's gotta start: class. consciousness; Class consciousness; Clients or citizens?; The impossible conflict; 4: We're the scum: stigmatisation, racism and crisis; Community versus the police; Crisis; Death from a can; The clean and the unclean; Unity refound; Them poor Aussies; Back to normal; We're the scum; Racism and crime; Racism and sexuality
Description / Table of Contents:
The meanings of racism5: Morals is all you've got: in search of community; Racism: how can you talk sense after that?; Homelessness: we're just not like that!; Family and discipline: Mum's always given us a slap; Crime: what if it was your grandmother?; 6: I want to get out of this: the struggle against social logics; Equality in work: he's the same sort of person that I am; An underclass?; Three social fields; Out of control; PART II: Postmodern crisis: navigating the flow; Cool selves, fluid societies?; Uncertain individuality; 7: None of the above: contemporary experiences of the gang
Description / Table of Contents:
People know who we areHierarchy and routine; We're ... none of the above; The new experience of marginality; 8: You'll be forgotten: visibility and mobility of graffiti writers; It's all based around the name; The first rule is respect; You do it for fame; Visibility in the flow; Non-places; Intensity and visibility; Addiction?; 9: Between the body and the self: the anorexic terrain; The anorexic experience: multiple meanings, multiple terrains; The communicating body; The performing body; Family: authenticity and competition; Gastro-anomie?; Body and subject; Addiction
Description / Table of Contents:
Between the body and the selfIntensity, addiction and social logics; Struggle for subjectivity; Social terrains; 10: We stand up for what we are: ethnicity and Aboriginality; The students; Between the community and the universal; Tradition; The struggle of ethnicity; You've got to know yourself; Social fields; 11: Conclusion: struggles for subjectivity; Selfhood and society; New dilemmas of subjectivity; Crisis of SUbjectivity; Recomposition; Sociology and contemporary social problems; Bibliography; Index
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Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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