462 Pages
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Routledge
462 Pages
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Routledge
448 Pages
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Routledge
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Scholarly interest in issues of self-identity has exploded across disciplines within the humanities and social sciences in recent years. Common to these concerns are the assumptions that self-identity is not an a priori, not given or fixed, but created in the process of communication. This also assumes that social institutions and values are produced and reproduced by individuals in interaction.... Read more
1: Introduction: From Information and Behavior to Interaction and Identity; Part I Issues of Theory and Method in Interactional Study of Identity; 2: Part/Whole Discovery: Stages of Inquiry; 3: Communication 1; 4: Pseudounilaterality, Simple-Rate Variables, and Other Ills to which Interaction Research is Heir; 5: Subjective Time, Social Interaction, and Personal Identity; Part II Identity as Interactive Construction; 6: Constructing Discourse Identities in the Openings of Academic Counseling Encounters; 7: Constructing Social Identity in the Workplace: Interaction in Bibliographic Database Searches; 8: Identity, Subjectivity, and Agency in Conversations about Disease; Part III Statements of Identity as Interactively Constructed; 9: Internal Muzak: An Examination of Intrapersonal Relationships; 10: Constructing Research Narratives and Establishing Scholarly Identities: Properties and Propositions 1; 11: Razzing: Ritualized Uses of Humor as a Form of Identification among American Indians; Part IV Barriers to Interactive Conceptualizations of Identity; 12: Ambiguous Bodies/Believable Selves: The Case of Herculine Barbin; 13: The Constitution of Identity as Gendered in Psychoanalytic Therapy: Ideology and Interaction; 14: Interpersonal Icons: Remembered Images and the Closure of Discourse from a Lacanian Perspective; Part V Remaking Identity Interactionally; 15: The (Re)construction and Negotiation of Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalization; 16: Identity Development: From Cultural to Intercultural; 17: Identities and the Assimilation Process in the Modern Organization; 18: Work and/or Caring: Exploring the Identification of Women’s Activities; 19: The Index, in Context; Contributors
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Harmut B. Mokros
