Culture and Identity key names

Culture and Identity key names

·         Ritzer – global culture

·         Woodward – individual identity starts with ‘Who am I’

·         Goffman – stigmatised identity

·         Durkheim – learning your culture through socialisation

·         Functionalists – individuals socialised into value consensus

·         Jenkins – identity is socially constructed through socialisation

·         Garfinkel – used the term ‘cultural dopes’ to be critical of structural approaches in the formation of culture and identity

·         Mead – people learn a sense of themselves as they grow up ‘their self-concept’

·         Cooley – the ‘looking-glass self’

·         Goffman – impression management

·         Giddens – structuration

Class

·         Bourdieu – habitus

·         Bourdieu – cultural capital

·         Savage – difficult to generalise about shared middle-class culture and identity (the opposite of Bourdieu)

·         Willis – hard manual work is key to…