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_beng
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050 0 0 _aHM291
_b.W295 1986
082 0 0 _a305.3
_219
100 1 _aWeigert, Andrew J.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSociety and Identity :
_bToward a Sociological Psychology /
_cAndrew J. Weigert, J. Smith Teitge, Dennis W. Teitge.
246 3 _aSociety & Identity
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1986.
300 _a1 online resource (148 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aAmerican Sociological Association Rose Monographs
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2017).
520 _aSince the 1940s, there has been an explosion of writings, both scientific and nonscientific, about the question of 'identity' and what it means to be an individual in today's world. This book examines sociological perspectives on identity in order to illuminate the perennial problem of defining the human person, and to pose an alternative definition of identity based on it being socially constructed. Beginning with a review of previous studies of identity, the authors present a set of propositions for organizing the wide range of uses of the term, and for arriving at an adequate definition of it. Identity is then analysed in two contexts: gender identity, linked to present bodies; and prenatal and postmortem identities, linked to future and past bodies. Whereas gender identity reveals the powerful but breakable link between body type and identity, prenatal and postmortem identities illustrate the symbolic reality and partial independence of identity from any corporeal existence. This is an innovative and insightful study which will appeal to all those concerned with understanding the nature of human identity.
650 0 _aIdentity (Psychology)
650 0 _aSocial role
650 0 _aSex role
650 0 _aSymbolic interactionism
700 1 _aTeitge, J. Smith,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aTeitge, Dennis W.,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521323253
830 0 _aAmerican Sociological Association Rose Monographs.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720215
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