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Crossing thresholds: acculturation and social capital in British Asian children

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posted on 2023-06-08, 15:20 authored by Charles WattersCharles Watters, et al.
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.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Page range

198-217

Pages

269.0

Book title

Theorizing identities and social action

ISBN

9780230580886

Series

Identity studies in the social sciences

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  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Margaret Wetherall

Legacy Posted Date

2013-07-08

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