Seeks to answer the basic social question of 'who am I?' by developing an understanding of self-identity as formed in social relations and social activity. Including chapters on gender and class, this book shows how identity 'works'. It is useful reading on courses in self and society, identity and [...]
"This is a lucid, engaging, and thoroughly insightful review of current social scientific thinking on emotions in social life by a leading scholar in the field. Burkitt advances a radically relational conceptualisation of emotion - one which has far-reaching implications for current debates surround[...]