Synopsis
Stereotyping stands in need of serious re-appraisal. This book provides a critical assessment of the concept and its use in the social sciences, considering its theoretical basis and historical development and linking these closely to the concept of the Other. As the first sustained book-length treatment of stereotyping in either sociology or media and cultural studies, the text embraces such key topics as nationalism and national identity, gender, racism and imperialism, normality and social order, and the figure of the stranger in the modern city. It is genuinely interdisciplinary, moving between sociology, social psychology, cultural history, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, and offers an indispensable examination of the roots of prejudice and bigotry in modern societies.
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About the Author
Michael Pickering has published in the fields of media studies, social and cultural history, and the sociology of art and culture. His recent books include Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008/2016); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); The Mnemonic Imagination (2012), Photography, Music and Memory, and Memory and the Management of Change, co-written with Emily Keightley; Research Methods for Memory Studies (2013); and Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain (2013), co-written with Marek Korczynski and Emma Robertson.; Imported from ONIX
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