Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity, Action and Youth ExperienceCambridge University Press, 28.10.1999 - 231 Seiten This book explores the relationship between new experiences of selfhood and new patterns of social life. It does so through an encounter with young people who confront urgent social and cultural transformations, whose experience of selfhood is unclear, often shaped by social forces that while powerful, appear difficult, if not impossible to name. These young people live in a world where institutions are weakening and identities fragmenting, where socialization into roles is being replaced by new imperatives of communication and self-esteem. Their world is shaped by new forms of freedom, but also by new forms of social polarization and conflict. More than other social groups, young people confront the imperative of locating a sense of self and subjectivity, and this book is an account of this struggle in a context of profound social and cultural change. The author draws on the experience of a diverse group of young people-graffiti artists, sufferers of anorexia, the unemployed-all from a broad range of educational and cultural backgrounds. This book renews hands-on fieldwork in the Chicago School tradition; it is one where we meet real people confronting real social situations, while its research agenda is posited within the new French "sociology of experience". Struggles for Subjectivity is not only about young people-it explores forms of crisis and struggle increasingly evident in advanced societies. |
Inhalt
The end of a workingclass experience | 15 |
You come from the bad side exploring social experience | 23 |
Somethings gotta start class consciousness | 48 |
Were the scum stigmatisation racism and crisis | 66 |
Morals is all youve got in search of community | 89 |
I want to get out of this the struggle against social logics | 104 |
Postmodern crisis navigating the flow | 117 |
None of the above contemporary experiences of the gang | 125 |
Youll be forgotten visibility and mobility of graffiti writers | 139 |
Between the body and the self the anorexic terrain | 155 |
We stand up for what we are ethnicity and Aboriginality | 180 |
Conclusion struggles for subjectivity | 202 |
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Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity, Action and Youth Experience Kevin McDonald Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aboriginal action addiction affirmation ANDREA anger anomie anorexia anorexic argues Asian Australia Beth body bulimia CARSON centre class consciousness communitarian competition conflictualise confront constructed in terms contemporary creativity crisis culture decomposition deinstitutionalisation dimensions disorganisation drugs Dubet emerges encounter ethnicity exclusion explore FORMER MAYOR forms of social gang experience Gauchet Giddens gonna gotta graffiti writers HARDBACK 0 521 homeless identity imperatives increasingly individual involved KATH KEVIN MCDONALD kids Koori live Mandy mate mean mobilisation mode movement NICK norms organised Outerview PAUL person Phon police postmodern problems racism recognition research sessions Rohypnol role ROYCE sense SERGE shit job social actors social experience social movements social relationships social terrain social world socialisation society sociologists sociology someone strategy structure struggle for subjectivity subculture theme There's Touraine tradition TRISHA type of graffiti underlines unemployed violence vulnerability Westview Yeah young women youth
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Seite 11 - ... model of transmission of norms is weakened, new media, such as the Internet and satellite TV channels, transmit alternative modes of socialization. While the whole of Iranian society is going through structural changes (demographic, economic, and sociopolitical), the Iranian youth are experiencing a period of redefinitions: of changing relationships between public and private, between local and global, between self and other, and of redefinition of sexual and bodily experiences (see McDonald...
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