Homelessness and strategies of identity
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Alice Farrington; W. Peter Robinson
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In order to investigate identity maintenance strategies used by a low status group, a covert participant observation study was conducted in a shelter for the homeless. From Social Identity Theory and previous research on the homeless, it was hypothesized that the identity maintenance strategies used