Theorizing Identities and Social Action [electronic resource] /
Wetherell, M.editor.
This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the 'doing' and 'making' of identities. Drawing on the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, the chapters take core social actions – such as performing, excluding, mixing, bonding – and demonstrate how social practices and identities unfold together.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Identity/Action Relation; M.WetherellPART I: BIOGRAPHIES AND PERSONAL TRAJECTORIESPractices, Identification and Identity Change in the Transition to Motherhood; H.Elliott, Y.Gunaratnam, W.Hollway & A.PhoenixBiography, Education and Civic Action: Teaching Generations and Social Change--J.Martin with J.Kirk, C.Wall & S.Jefferys Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre Among Refugees; N.Yuval-Davis & E.KaptaniTales of Two or Many Worlds? When Street Kids go Global; G.Jones & S.T.De BenitezPART II: INTERATCIONS AND INSTITUTIONSAccomplishing Social Action with Identity Categories: Mediating and Policing Neighbour Disputes; E.Stokoe & D.EdwardsPassing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic;&nbsp--S. SpeerIdentity at Home: Offering Everyday Choices to People with Intellectual Impairment; C.Antaki, M.Finlay& C.WaltonPART III: COMMUNITIES, CITIES AND NATIONSIdentity Making for Action: The Example of London Citizens; J.WillsResidential Segregation and Intergroup Contact: Consequences for Intergroup Relations, Social Capital and Social Identity--K.Schmid, M. Hewstone, J.Hughes, R.Jenkins & E.CairnsCrossing Thresholds: Acculturation and Social Capital in British Asian Children; C.Watters, R.Hossain, R.Brown & A.RutlandIdentity, Social Action and Public Space: Defining Civic Space in Belfast; S.Connolly & D.BryanDefining Common Goals without Speaking the Same Language: Social Identity and Social Action in Wales; A.Livingstone, R.Spears, A.Manstead & M.Bruder.
This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the 'doing' and 'making' of identities. Drawing on the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, the chapters take core social actions – such as performing, excluding, mixing, bonding – and demonstrate how social practices and identities unfold together.
Sociology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Self.
Identity (Psychology).
Education.
Gender Studies.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Self and Identity.
Popular Science in Education.