AUTHENTICITY IN CULTURE, SELF, AND SOCIETY
Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society
Edited by
PHILLIP VANNINI
Royal Roads University, Canada
J. PATRICK WILLIAMS,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Authenticity in culture, self, and society
1. Authenticity (Philosophy) 2. Social sciences - Philosophy
I. Vannini, Phillip II. Williams, J. Patrick, 1970-300.1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vannini, Phillip.
Authenticity in culture, self, and society / by Phillip Vannini and J. Patrick Williams.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7516-7
1. Culture. 2. Cultural awareness. 3. Authenticity (Philosophy). 4. Group identity. 5. Consumption (Economics)--Psychological aspects. I. Williams, J. Patrick, 1970- II. Title.
HM621.V455 2009
306.01--dc22
2008045386
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-7516-7 (hbk)
Contents
Phillip Vannini and J. Patrick Williams
Alessandro Ferrara
Andrew J. Weigert
Dennis D. Waskul
Philip Lewin and J. Patrick Williams
Alexis T. Franzese
Phillip Vannini and Sarah Burgess
Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
Michael Schwalbe
Joseph A. Kotarba
Jrn Lamla
Joshua Guilar and Lynn Charman
Daphne Holden and Douglas Schrock
Chaim Noy
E. Doyle McCarthy
Gary J. Krug
Sarah Burgess holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and in Sociology, a B.Sc. in Physics, and an interdisciplinary M.A. from the University of Victoria. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Toronto. Her poems have appeared in a number of Canadian literary magazines, including the Malahat Review, Prism International, and Grain. A series of poems on science will appear in The New Quarterly in Fall 2007.
Lynn Charman holds a M.A. degree in Professional Communication from Royal Roads University. Following an extensive career in broadcast network television as a producer, director and writer, Lynn is currently in the Public Affairs Bureau for the province of British Columbia.
Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. He is author of Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity (Routledge, 1998), Modernity and Authenticity: A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau (SUNY Press, 1993), The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgement (Columbia University Press, 2007), Justice and Judgment: The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy (SAGE, 1999), as well as several other books and many journal articles in Italian, German, and English.
Alexis T. Franzese recently completed her doctoral study in Sociology at Duke University. Her dissertation research addressed the relationship between the need for social approval and authentic behavior. Alexis now continues her studies of authenticity as she pursues her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Duke University, in which she investigates the mental health consequences of feeling inauthentic. Her writings have appeared in Sociology Compass and Demography.
Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor and Chair of the University of Missouri-Columbia Sociology department. He previously has taught at Marquette University and the University of Florida, was a Fulbright scholar at Tampere University, Finland, in 1996, and has been a visiting professor at Tampere, at Lund University in Sweden, and at the Universities of Copenhagen and Odense in Denmark. He is author and co-editor of 28 books, including his most recent Analyzing Narrative Reality (Sage Publications, 2009). His areas of specialization are aging and the life course, social interaction, identity, qualitative methods, and narrative analysis.
Joshua Guilar is the Director of the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University. His most recent book is titled The Power of Authenticity (DeVorss, 2007). In 2007, Joshua received a grant from the Canadian Council on Learning to conduct a project titled ALENENEC (Homeland): Learning from Place, Spirit and Traditional Language. The research focuses on understanding a class in which learners integrate traditional knowledge regarding place and language with their personal and career development. In addition to studying the nature of learning from place, the research seeks a better understanding of the ethics of research in Aboriginal communities.
Daphne Holden, Ph.D. is an independent researcher who is currently funded by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation to look at how the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (an immigrant workers center in Immokalee, Florida) uses human rights to make social change. Her research has focused on the reproduction of inequality and emotions and she has published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Social Forces, and Social Problems. Most recently, her article in Symbolic Interaction (2007) examines how founders of an intentional community used a discourse of authenticity to maintain power over newcomers.
James A. Holstein is Professor of Sociology at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He is author and editor of over 20 books, including Inner Lives and Social Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2003) and The Self We Live By (Oxford University Press, 2000). His interests in identity work, talk, and social interaction relate to various dimensions of authenticity as they reference inner life.
Joseph A. Kotarba is Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. He is co-editor of The Existential Self in Society (University of Chicago Press, 1984) and Postmodern Existential Sociology (AltaMira Press, 2002), and the author of Growing Old with Rock n Roll (Left Coast Press, 2007) as well as several articles on popular music, youth culture, existential sociology and symbolic interactionism which have appeared in journals such as Symbolic Interaction and the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
Gary J. Krug
