Scott, Susie, McDonnell, Elizabeth and Dawson, Matt (2016) Stories of non-becoming: non-issues, non-events and non-identities in asexual lives. Symbolic Interaction, 39 (2). pp. 268-286. ISSN 0195-6086
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Abstract
In contrast to conventional models of positively “becoming” an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of “non-becoming,” whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-awareness, communicative negation and non-consolidation, each involving interactional contingencies. With a wider applicability to other repudiated identities, this model shows how even negational symbolic social objects (non-issues, non-events, and non-identities) are constituted through social interaction.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | asexuality; identity; non-becoming; career trajectory |
Schools and Departments: | School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Sociology |
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Depositing User: | Susie Scott |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2016 09:31 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2019 18:35 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60021 |
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