Interaction and Identity

✍ Scribed by Harmut B. Mokros

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 463
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. To capture the essential characteristics of a person requires analysis of how the social and psychological intersect in moments of communication.

Interaction and Identity contributes, theoretically and empirically, to contemporary scholarly interest in issues of identity. Chapters and contributors to this stand alone volume include: "Part/Whole Discovery: Stages of Inquiry" by Thomas Scheff; "Communication" by Gregory Bateson; "Internal Muzak: An Examination of Intrapersonal Relationships" by Linda Lederman; "The Constitution of Identity as Gendered in Psychoanalytic Therapy: Ideology and Interaction" by Margaret Carr; and "The (Reconstruction and Negotiation of Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalization" by Getinet Belay.

The multiple disciplines of social research with contemporary interest in identity are ably reflected in Interaction and Identity. The authors are drawn from eight disciplines: anthropology, communication, information science, linguistics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, and sociology. This book will be invaluable to scholars in all these areas—above all in communication research as such.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
INTRODUCTION: 1 From Information and Behavior to Interaction and Identity
From Information to Communication
From Behavior to Identity
The Communicative Constitution of Identity
Contributions to Interaction and Identity
Issues of Theory and Method in Interactional Study of Identity
Identity as Interactive Construction
Statements of Identity as Interactively Constructed
Barriers to Interactive Conceptualizations of Identity
Remaking Identity Interactionally
Final Thoughts
Author Note
Notes
References
PART I: Issues of Theory and Method inInteractional Study of Identity
2. Part/Whole Discovery: Stages of Inquiry
Goethe’s Approach to Inquiry
Wittgenstein’s Approach to Inquiry
Linking Abstract Concepts to Empirical Data
The Part/Whole Ladder
Stages of Inquiry
Discussion
Summary
Note
References
3. Communication
The Natural History of an Interview
Theoretical Premises
Freudian
Gestalt
Context
Interaction
Code Distortion
Learning and Pathogenesis
Pathogenic Contexts
Notes
References
4. Pseudounilaterality, Simple-Rate Variables, and Other Ills to which Interaction Research is Heir
Simple-Rate Variables
Pseudounilaterality
Numerator Affected
Denominator Affected
Action-Sequence Variables
Run-Sequence Variables
Sex Differences in Speaker Gaze
Method
Participants
Log-Linear Analyses of Run Sequences
Results
Model Fitting
Single-Parameter Effects
Interpretation of Results and Discussion
Conclusion
Note
References
5. Subjective Time, Social Interaction, and Personal Identity
The Composite Temporal Self
Personal Time and Communicative Interaction
Further Considerations
References
PART II: Identity as InteractiveConstruction
6. Constructing Discourse Identities in the Openings of Academic Counseling Encounters
Identity as Construction
Ethnomethodology/Conversation Analysis
The Importance of Openings
Data and Procedures
Data
Procedures
Data Analysis
Self-Construction of Students' Identity
Other Construction of Students' Identity
Construction of Counselors' Identity
Conclusion and Discussion
Author Note
Notes
References
7. Constructing Social Identity in the Workplace: Interaction in Bibliographic Database Searches
Data and Procedures
Making Suggestions
Unilateral and Collaborative Suggestions
Conclusions
Note
References
8. Identity, Subjectivity, and Agency in Conversations about Disease
Method
Sample
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Identity
Identity Construction as a Dance
Identity Construction as a Contest
Analysis of Identity in Conversations about Disease
Identities Portrayed
Construction and Support of Identity in Conversation
Elements of Verbal Contests
Subjectivity
Analysis of Subjectivity in Disease Discourse
Disease Discourse
Relationship between Disease Discourse and Nondiscursive Domains
Position of the Subject in Disease Discourse
Agency
Analysis of Agency in Disease Interactions
Anyone can get HIV/AIDS
Only “Addicts ” and “Homos ” Get Hepatitis-B
Discussion
Examining the Self
Socially Constructed Identity Categories
Examining Conversational Conventions that Support Face
Distance of Subject from Disease
Conclusion
Author’s Note
References
PART III: Statements of Identity asInteractively Constructed
9. Internal Muzak: An Examination of Intrapersonal Relationships
Self and Communication
Selves in Relation to Themselves: Intrapersonal Relationships
Focus Groups as a Method for Investigating
Intrapersonal Relationships
The Interviews and the Interviewees
Findings from the Interviews
Self as the Object of Itself
The Voices in Intrapersonal Relationships
Self Talk as Ubiquitous
Discussion of the Findings
Implications and Conclusions
Author Note
Note
References
10. Constructing Research Narratives and Establishing
Scholarly Identities: Properties and Propositions
The Research Narrative: Conceptual Foundations
Research Narratives and the Constructivist Perspective
Research Narratives, Autobiography, and the Constitution of Identity
Properties of Research Narratives
Selectivity
Ordering
Place
Ranking
Conflict
Closure
Interpretability
Implications for Scholarly Communication Research: Some Propositions About Research Narratives
Conclusion
Author Note
Notes
References
11. Razzing: Ritualized Uses of Humor as a Form of Identification among American Indians
Data and Method
On The Problematic and Consequential Nature of “Indian-ness”
Motivations for Identifying as an Indian
Problematic Matters of Identifying as an Indian
Consequentiality of the Question
Razzing and Similar Forms
Razzing as a Ritual
Topics in Razzing Rituals
Purpose in Razzing Rituals
The Contextual and Reflexive Nature of Razzing Rituals
Act Sequence in Razzing Rituals
The Setting of Raizing Rituals
Razzing in the Form of Songs
Participants in Razzing Ritual
Razzing as Distinctively Indian Humor
An Exemplar of Razzing
Concluding Remarks
References
PART IV: Barriers to Interactive Conceptualizations of Identity
12. Ambiguous Bodies/Believable Selves: The Case of Herculine Barbin
The Body as Psychical Map
The Journal of Herculine Barbin
Gender as Ideology
Judith Butler’s Critique of Foucault
The Constitution of Sexed Bodies
Authenticity of the Self
References
13. The Constitution of Identity as Gendered in Psychoanalytic Therapy: Ideology and Interaction
Why Psychoanalysis?
The Gendered Constitution of Identity in Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychoanalytic Encounters
Encounter 1: Ideological Constraints
Encounter 2: An Ideologically Loaded Moment in Psychotherapy
Discussion and Conclusion
Author Note
Notes
References
14. Interpersonal Icons: Remembered Images and the Closure of Discourse from a Lacanian Perspective
An Initial Conception
Lacan’s Reading of Freud
The Analysis of Icons in Film
Interpersonal Icons and Dialogic Communication
Notes
References
PART V: Remaking Identity Interactionally
15. The (Re)construction and Negotiation of Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalization
Cultural Identity: Conceptual Orientations
Typology of Cultural Identifications
Uniform Human Consciousness
Hegemony and Homogenization
World Metaculture
Toward an Interactionist Approach
Globalization as a New Interactional Context
Ramifications to Cultural Identification
(Re)constructed and Negotiated Identities
Conclusion
References
16. Identity Development: From Cultural to Intercultural
Common Conceptions of Cultural Identity: A Critique
Intercultural Communication and Identity Development
Data and Illustrations
Discussion
References
17. Identities and the Assimilation Process in the Modem Organization
Organizational Assimilation: Critiquing the Traditional Perspective
Misunderstanding Modern Individuals
Misunderstanding the Modern Organization
Assimilation and Human Identities
Practicing Modern Assimilation
A uthors’ Note
References
18. Work and/or Caring: Exploring the Identification of Women’s Activities
Family Day Care: A Site of Identification Difficulties
Challenges to the Classical Model of Category Structure
Social Situations as Places of Identification
Situational Change in the Identification of Family Day Care
Situational Goals
Conclusion: The Benefits of a New Approach to Identification
A uthor’s Note
Notes
References
19. The Index, in Context
The “Good” Index and the “Ideal” Indexer
“The Most Important Assumptions...May in Fact Be Incorrect”
Where to Go from Here?
Note
References
Contributors
Citation Index
Subject Index