By Ben Agger
The digital Self is an interesting and interesting textual content that addresses concerns in relation to our quickly altering society, social constitution, and conversation wishes. In doing so, it addresses significant matters in sociology that tell almost all of a student’s direction work.
- Introduces scholars to recommendations of the self and society in an age of fast know-how and excessive velocity communication
- Examines the connection among daily life and social constitution in key domain names of verbal exchange, character, work/family, relaxation and leisure, and economics
- Written in a full of life, attractive variety for readers and not using a sociological background
Content:
Chapter 1 way of life in Our stressed global (pages 1–41):
Chapter 2 Sociology's Encyclopedia (pages 42–76):
Chapter three Does Postmodernism Make You Mad or Did You Flunk facts? A bankruptcy on method (pages 77–97):
Chapter four Adventures in Capitalism (pages 98–123):
Chapter five woman speak (pages 124–144):
Chapter 6 nearly, a Sociology! (pages 143–170):
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Extra info for The Virtual Self: A Contemporary Sociology
Sample text
Do you find ways to ignore it all and carry on living? Do you think sociologists as a species worry a lot? It is difficult to be a Marxist and avoid sounding like a determinist, who portrays a post-capitalist, perhaps postmodern future as inevitable. For someone who opposes positivism on both the left and right wings, the talk of predestination and iron necessity must be avoided at all costs. I am not certain that capitalism will collapse; but I am convinced that Marx’s analysis of the deep-seated structural contradictions of capital make empirical sense, suggesting that capitalism is an impermanent, transitory social order that lurches from crisis to crisis, albeit with more self-sustaining resilience than Marx could have imagined in a relatively crude stage of nineteenth-century capitalist development.
Indeed, I am composing the final revisions of this book as the American economy under President George Bush, Jr is in a nosedive and a depleting and destructive Iraq war has just ended. Everyday life plays a crucial role in people’s diversion from politics. People’s routines appear untouched by the large structures of capitalism and colonialism, which are purposely shrouded in mystery. People are discouraged from theorizing their everyday lives, which are influenced by these powerful yet invisible structures, precisely because ideologies, which exist to protect this particular social order, portray society as governed by iron-clad necessities simply beyond the comprehension, let alone control, of ordinary citizens.
The first sociologists were animated by the problem of anomie or alienation, which they saw as the most pressing social problem of the day. I will argue that anomie is still a leading human problem, although it takes somewhat different forms, given advances in communications, technology, media, and culture since the late nineteenth century. One of my main questions in this book is whether we should view the solitary Web surfer, alone in her darkened study staring at the illuminated screen, as anomic and lonely or plugged-in and connected.