Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society write by J. Patrick Williams. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside of sociology, whilst failing to present empirical studies which centre on the concept itself. Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society addresses the problems surrounding this concept, offering a sociological analysis of it for the first time in order to provide readers in the social and cultural sciences with a clear conceptualization of authenticity and with a survey of original empirical studies focused on its experience, negotiation, and social relevance at the levels of self, culture and specific social settings.
Culture and Authenticity
Culture and Authenticity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Authenticity write by Charles Lindholm. This book was released on 2007-12-26. Culture and Authenticity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Authenticity is taken-for-granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. In Culture and Authenticity, Charles Lindholm calls upon anthropological case studies from different cultures, historical material, and comparative philosophy, to explore how notions of authenticity develop, what forms it takes, and how it changes over time. Examines the idea of authenticity and its role in modern culture Explores society’s preoccupation with authenticity and the search for ‘real’ experiences Looks at how the concept of authenticity intersects with questions about religion, ethnicity, and race Investigates authenticity in the context of fields such as dance, cuisine, travel, and the modern marketplace
The Ethics of Authenticity
The Ethics of Authenticity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ethics of Authenticity write by Charles Taylor. This book was released on 2018-08-06. The Ethics of Authenticity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges. "The great merit of Taylor's brief, non-technical, powerful book...is the vigor with which he restates the point which Hegel (and later Dewey) urged against Rousseau and Kant: that we are only individuals in so far as we are social... Being authentic, being faithful to ourselves, is being faithful to something which was produced in collaboration with a lot of other people... The core of Taylor's argument is a vigorous and entirely successful criticism of two intertwined bad ideas: that you are wonderful just because you are you, and that 'respect for difference' requires you to respect every human being, and every human culture--no matter how vicious or stupid." --Richard Rorty, London Review of Books
Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity
Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity write by J. Patrick Williams. This book was released on 2020-08-03. Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As identity and authenticity discourses increasingly saturate everyday life, so too have these concepts spread across the humanities and social sciences literatures. Many scholars may be interested in identity and authenticity but lack knowledge of paradigmatic or disciplinary approaches to these concepts. This volume offers readers insight into social constructionist approaches to identity and authenticity. It focuses on the processes of identification and authentication, rather than on subjective experiences of selfhood. There are no attempts to settle what authentic identities are. On the contrary, contributors demonstrate that neither identities nor their authenticity have a single or fixed meaning. Chapters provide exemplars of contemporary research on identity and authenticity, with significant diversity among them in terms of the identities, cultural milieu, geographic settings, disciplinary traditions, and methodological approaches considered. Contributors introduce readers to a number of established and emerging identity groups from sites around the world, from yogis and punks to fire dancers and social media influencers. Their conceptual work stretches from the micro-analytic to the ethno-national as authors employ a variety of qualitative methods including ethnographic fieldwork, interviewing, and the collection and analysis of naturally-occurring interactions. Several of the chapters look directly at identification and authentication while others focus on the social and cultural backdrops that structure these practices – what unites them is the adoption of social constructionist sensibilities. This book will appeal to anyone interested in understanding identity and authenticity.
Club Cultures
Club Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Club Cultures write by Sarah Thornton. This book was released on 2013-08-23. Club Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves.
