Uniforms and Nonuniforms: Communication Through Clothing

by Nathan Joseph

Overview

Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society. In the first in-depth study to analyze the communicative character of uniforms and other types of clothing, Nathan Joseph examines how clothing functions in a variety of social contexts to enforce norms, maintain institutional power, identify group membership, and express or suppress individuality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313251955
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/03/1986
Series:	Controversies in Science , #61
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)