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Stories of non-becoming: non-issues, non-events and non-identities in asexual lives

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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:33 authored by Susie ScottSusie Scott, Liz McDonnellLiz McDonnell, Matt Dawson
In contrast to conventional models of positively “becoming” an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of “non-becoming,” whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-awareness, communicative negation and non-consolidation, each involving interactional contingencies. With a wider applicability to other repudiated identities, this model shows how even negational symbolic social objects (non-issues, non-events, and non-identities) are constituted through social interaction.

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Symbolic Interaction

ISSN

0195-6086

Publisher

University of California Press

Issue

2

Volume

39

Page range

268-286

Department affiliated with

  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-03-14

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-02-23

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-14

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