Uniforms and Nonuniforms: Communication Through Clothing

By Nathan Joseph

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313251959
• ISBN13: 9780313251955
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"