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Stories of non-becoming: non-issues, non-events and non-identities in asexual lives
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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:33 authored by Susie ScottSusie Scott, Liz McDonnellLiz McDonnell, Matt DawsonIn 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.
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- Published
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Symbolic InteractionISSN
0195-6086Publisher
University of California PressExternal DOI
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2Volume
39Page range
268-286Department affiliated with
- Sociology and Criminology Publications
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2016-03-14First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-02-23First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-03-14Usage metrics
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