Making Identity Matter: Identity, Society and Social Interaction

by Robin Williams

Making Identity Matter provides a clear and lively critique of a variety of uses of the concept of 'identity' within sociology and associated human sciences. In the early chapters, Robin Williams draws on a range of historical and contemporary sources to describe and discuss some common images of identity -- as subjective achievement, as social location and as discursive effect. In later chapters, the author explores recent empirical studies, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903457025
• ISBN13: 9781903457023
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 172 Pages