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1. Identity matters -- 2. Similarity and difference -- 3. A sign of the times? -- 4. Understanding identification -- 5. Selfhood and mind -- 6. Embodied selves -- 7. Entering the human world -- 8. Self-image and public image -- 9. Groups and categories -- 10. Beyond boundaries -- 11. Symbolising belonging -- 12. Uncertaintly and predictability -- 13. Institutionalising identification -- 14. Organising identification -- 15. Categorisation and consequences -- 16. Identity and modernity revisited.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the 2002 edition -- Chapter 1 A Book for Reading -- Chapter 2 Anthropology and Structuralism -- Chapter 3 Experiments in Epistemology -- Chapter 4 Practice, Habitus and Field -- Chapter 5 Symbolic Violence and Social Reproduction -- Chapter 6 Culture, Status and Distinction -- Chapter 7 Use of Language -- Chapter 8 Using Bourdieu -- Reading Bourdieu -- Name index -- Subject index

Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions, this fourth edition offers a concise, comprehensive and readable critical introduction to social science theories of identity for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates. All the chapters have been updated, and extra new material has been added where relevant, integrating the most recent critical publications in the field. As with the earlier editions, the emphasis is on sociology, anthropology and social p.

This book is a welcome and brilliantly crafted overview of this field. It represents a major advance in our understanding of how ethnicity works in specific social and cultural contexts. The second edition will be an invaluable resource for both students and researchers alike' - John Solomos, City University, London. The first edition of Rethinking Ethnicity quickly established itself as a popular text for students of ethnicity and ethnic relations. This fully revised and updated second edition adds new material on globalization and the recent debates about whether ethnicity matters and ethnic

Introduction -- Patterns of cannabis use -- Young people's views about cannabis -- Predictors of cannabis use -- Cannabis and psychosocial functioning -- Cannabis and the use of other illicit drugs -- Prevention and treatment -- Cannabis policy -- Conclusion.

This book argues that the foundations of sociology - key concepts which are necessary to all sociology, from whatever perspective - have become taken-for-granted and require re-assessment. Focusing on society, culture, the individual, and collectivity, the author builds a powerful case for an overhaul of these basic concepts, offering a unified model of the subject matter of sociology as 'the human world' - understood as individual, interactional and institutional orders - which is part of the 'natural world'. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this is a powerful restatement of the value of sociological sense as a necessary critique of common sense, and its relevance to an audience far beyond academia