Social Identity in Question: Construction, Subjectivity and Critique

ISBN-13: 9781848720800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str.

Parisa Dashtipour

Opis

Social identity theory is one of the most influential approaches to identity, group processes, intergroup relations, and social change. This text draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Lacanian social theorists to investigate and rework the predominant concepts in the social identity framework.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. 2. The social identity tradition and its critics. 3. The category, not the self. 4. What ever happened to ‘"hot" aspects of the group’? 5. Another story of the minimal group paradigm. 6. Social change or socio-symbolic symptom? 7. Gringo: a case study. 8. Conclusions. References.

O autorze

Parisa Dashtipour currently teaches in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.