Theorizing Identities and Social Action

✍ Scribed by Margaret Wetherell (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Practices, Identification and Identity Change in the Transition to Motherhood....Pages 19-37
Biography, Education and Civic Action: Teaching Generations and Social Change....Pages 38-55
Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre among Refugees....Pages 56-74
Tales of Two or Many Worlds? When ‘Street’ Kids Go Global....Pages 75-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Accomplishing Social Action with Identity Categories: Mediating and Policing Neighbour Disputes....Pages 95-115
Passing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic....Pages 116-138
Identity at Home: Offering Everyday Choices to People with Intellectual Impairments....Pages 139-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Identity Making for Action: The Example of London Citizens....Pages 157-176
Residential Segregation and Intergroup Contact: Consequences for Intergroup Relations, Social Capital and Social Identity....Pages 177-197
Crossing Thresholds: Acculturation and Social Capital in British Asian Children....Pages 198-219
Identity, Social Action and Public Space: Defining Civic Space in Belfast....Pages 220-237
Defining Common Goals without Speaking the Same Language: Social Identity and Social Action in Wales....Pages 238-255
Back Matter....Pages 256-269

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies; Personality and Social Psychology; Social Theory; Sociology, general; Self and Identity; Popular Science in Education