Watters, Charles and et al., (2009) Crossing thresholds: acculturation and social capital in British Asian children. In: Wetherall, Margaret (ed.) Theorizing identities and social action. Identity studies in the social sciences . Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 198-217. ISBN 9780230580886

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Abstract

How do identities and social action articulate together? This book explores the 'doing' and the 'making' of identity. It describes how identities emerge from the flow of action and organise social conduct. In social research identity is often treated as a static accomplished fact – already owned, finalised and shaped. Drawing on five years of sustained research within the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, Theorizing Identities and Social Action develops a very different standpoint. The chapter authors take core social actions – such as performing, excluding, mixing, bonding, relating, 'passing', travelling, campaigning and disputing – and demonstrate how social practices and identities unfold together. A wide range of theories of the identity/action relation are accessibly mobilised in ways which will be illuminating for students and experienced researchers alike. These include Judith Butler's notion of performativity, social identity theory in social psychology, relational psychoanalysis, Bourdieu's notion of 'habitus' and conversation analysis.

Item Type:	Book Section
Schools and Departments:	School of Education and Social Work > Social Work and Social Care
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV0040 Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice Including social case work, private and public relief, institutional care, rural social work, work relief
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Depositing User:	Michael Davy
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2013 11:29
Last Modified:	03 Oct 2013 15:07
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45611

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