British cultural identities

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Title:

Author:

Storry, Mike, 1943-

ISBN:

9780415680752

9780415680769

9780203105047

Edition:

4th ed.

Publication Information:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, c2013.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

Introduction : Britain in the modern world / Peter Childs and Mike Storry -- Places and peoples : nation and region / Peter Childs -- Education, work and leisure / Mike Storry -- Gender, sex, and the family / Roberta Garrett -- Youth culture and style / Jo Croft -- Class and politics / Frank McDonough -- Ethnicity and language / Gerry Smyth -- Religion and heritage / Edmund Cusick -- Conclusion : Britain towards the future / Peter Childs and Mike Storry.

Subject Term:

National characteristics, British.

Popular culture -- Great Britain.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- Civilization -- 21st century.

Great Britain -- Social life and customs.

Added Author:

Storry, Mike, 1943-

Childs, Peter, 1962-

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Summary

In British Cultural Identities, Mike Storry and Peter Childs assess the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who live in Britain. They analyze contemporary British identity through the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today. Using examples from contemporary and popular culture, each chapter covers one of seven intersecting themes:

place and environment education, work and leisure gender, sex and the family youth culture and style class and politics ethnicity and language religion and heritage.

This new edition is fully updated to include Britain's relationship with the wider world, changes in university education and testing in schools, the trend towards electronic entertainment and social networking, the new impact of 'class', and the culture of political leaking.