The Virtual Self

A Critical Introduction

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by Ben Agger

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published January 2004, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 0631216499

The Virtual Self addresses major issues in sociology that relate to everyday life and social structure in key domains of communication, personality, work/family, leisure and entertainment, and economics. At the same time, the book advances an argument about our stage of civilization, joining dialogue with critical thinkers and theorists who bemoan the loss of community and civic discourse. These perspectives from critical theory and postmodernism are introduced and are linked to standard sociological concerns such as the relationship between self and society.

Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Everyday Life in Our Wired World
2. Sociology's Encyclopedia
3. Does Postmodernism Make You Mad? or, Did You Flunk Statistics?
4. Adventures in Capitalism
5. Girl Talk
6. Virtually, a Sociology!
Glossary
Bibliography