Negotiating Identity: Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Social Identity
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Interacting selves: Symbolic interactionism encounters identity -- What is identity? -- The social self -- Multi-dimensional subjects: fixity or fragmentation? -- Symbolic interactionism -- Goffman's dramaturgy -- Criticism and defence -- Symbolic interactionism and identity -- Outline of the book -- 2 Relating in public: Rudeness, civility and polite fictions -- The interaction order -- Politeness and civility -- Definition of the situation -- Ritualized observance -- Unfocused encounters: regulating involvement -- Polite fictions and presented realities -- Rudeness and incivility -- Conclusion -- 3 Framing pictures: Definitions, accounts and motive talk -- Language and the social construction of reality -- Ethnomethodology: talk-in-interaction -- Conversation analysis -- Discourse analysis -- Aligning actions -- Frame analysis -- Conclusion -- 4 Managing faces: Roles, performance and self-presentation -- Performing the self -- Role-taking or role-making? -- Artful strategies -- Decorating the stage: scenery and props -- Lines and moves -- Facework -- Students' self-presentation strategies -- Belief in one's own performance -- Role immersion, embracement and engulfment -- Role conflict -- Role distance -- Discrepant roles -- Conclusion -- 5 Casting members: Teamwork, collusion and dramaturgical loyalty -- A loyal cast of players -- Harmonious co-operation between team-mates -- Team collusion and pseudomutuality -- Symbolic displays of membership -- Facilitative rituals -- Protective and collective facework -- Directorial procedures -- Conclusion -- 6 Spoiling careers: Deviance, stigma and moral trajectories -- Identity as career -- Making sense of ourselves -- Trajectories -- Critical junctures -- Moral careers -- Stigma -- Deviant careers -- Career exit -- Conclusion.
