Marked Identities [electronic resource] : Narrating Lives between Social Labels and Individual Biographies /
Piazza, R.editor.
Fasulo, A.editor.
Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 'Since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings [ . . .] Now [People] . . . Understand More 'Cos of That Programme': Irish Travellers' Identity Between Stigmatisation and Self-Image; 2 The Nice Stasi Man Drove His Trabi to the Nudist Beach: Contesting East German Identity; 3 'They Paint Everyone With the Same Brush but It Just Simply Isn't the Case': Reconstructing and Redefining Homeless Identities; 4 On the Margins: Aboriginal Realities and 'White Man's Research'
5 'Racial Laws Turned Our Lives Positively': Agentivity and Chorality in the Identity of a Group of Italian Jewish Witnesses6 Young Motherhood: Is It Really a Case of 'Shattered Lives and Blighted Futures'?; 7 Reordered Narratives and the Changes in Self-Understanding From Addiction to Recovery; 8 History in Waiting: Receiving a Diagnosis of Asperger in Midlife; Afterword; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes.
Sociolinguistics.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Sociolinguistics.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Sociology, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Community and Environmental Psychology.