Identity in the 21st Century : New Trends in Changing Times

Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary social life, this book examines the current patterning of identities based on class and community, gender and generation, 'race', faith and ethnicity, and derived from popular culture, exploring debates about social change, individualization and the re-making of social class.

Introduction - Negotiating Liveable Lives: Intelligibility and Identity in Contemporary Britain; M.Wetherell Part I: CLASS AND COMMUNITY  Individualisation and the Decline of Class Identity;  A.Heath, J.Curtice  & G.Elgenius ''I Don''t Want to be Classed, But We Are All Classed'': Making Liveable Lives Across Generations;  B.Rogaly  & B.Taylor Steel, Identity, Community: Regenerating Identities in a South Wales Town;  V.Walkerdine White Middle-Class Identity Work Through ''Against the Grain'' School Choices; D.James, D.Reay, G.Crozier, F.Jamieson, P.Beedell, S.Hollingworth  & K.Williams Part II: ETHNICITIES AND ENCOUNTERS Ethnicities Without Guarantees: An Empirical Approach;  R.Harris  & B.Rampton ''Con-Viviality'' and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men''s Prison;  R.Earle  & C.Phillips Imagining the ''Other''/Figuring Encounter: White English Middle-Class and Working-Class Identifications;  S.Clarke, S.Garner  & R.Gilmour The Subjectivities of Young Somali: The Impact of Processes of Disidentification and Disavowal;  G.Valentine  & D.Sporton Living London: Women Negotiating Identities in a Post-Colonial City;  R.Cox, S.Jackson, M.Khatwa  & D.Kiwan Part III: Popular Culture and Relationality The Making of Modern Motherhoods: Storying an Emergent Identity;  R.Thomson, M.J.Kehily, L.Hadfield  & S.Sharpe The Allure of Belonging: Young People''s Drinking Practices and Collective Identification; C.Griffin, A.Bengry-Howell, C.Hackley, W.Mistral  & I.Szmigin The Transformation of Intimacy: Classed Identities in the Moral Economy of Reality Television;  B.Skeggs  & H.Wood