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Sociological approaches to identity -- Beyond the individual: collective identities -- Performing authenticity: negotiating the symbolic politics of inclusion and exclusion -- Multidimensionality, intersectionality, and power: identity and social inequalities --Mobility and fluidity: the omni-contextual nature of identity -- Conclusion.

AbstractThis article reviews recent developments and trends in the qualitative study of social identities. Recent scholarship emphasizes multidimensionality and challenges notions of identity singularity and coherence. These challenges include critiques of the implicit identity monism of approaches that give master status primacy to a single marked identity attribute along race, class, gender, or sexuality axes or that portray static notions of a coherent single unified self‐identity. After analyzing the social bases of collective identities and self‐identities, this article examines identity strategies, claims to identity authenticity, identity shifts and transitions, and the contextual situatedness and multidimensionality of self‐identities. Recent developments in the sociology of identity focus on the multidimensionality and mobility of contemporary identities. These developments can be understood by separating identity research into its analysis of markedness and unmarkedness, authenticity claims, and the role of mobility and flexibility, in contributing to the multidimensional character of social identities

Adumbrates that Laud Humphrey's studies have shaped the debate on sociological methods, they have also distracted from emphasizing his potential contributions to sociological theory. Identifies four themes in Humphrey's work, which are important to the sociological study of identity. Concludes that Humphreys demonstrates that sexual identity may not be as permanent and fixed as may first appear.

In recent years there has been a growing interest in cognition within sociology and other social sciences. Within sociology this interest cuts across various topical subfields, including culture, social psychology, religion, race, and identity. Scholars within the new subfield of cognitive sociology, also referred to as the sociology of culture and cognition, are contributing to a rapidly developing body of work on how mental and social phenomena are interrelated and often interdependent. In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology, Wayne H. Brekhus and Gabe Igantow have gathered some of the most influential scholars working in cognitive sociology to present an accessible introduction to key research areas in a diverse field.

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Birth and Beginnings -- 2. Becoming an Instant Icon -- 3. Historical and Intellectual Context of Tearoom Trade: The 1960s and Washington University -- 4. Published Criticism and Use of Tearoom Trade -- 5. Upward Professional Mobility and Continuing Activism -- 6. The Long (and Rapid) Road Down -- 7. The Legacy of Laud: Politics, Substance, and Professional Ethics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Laud Humphreys's Vita -- Appendix B: Laud Humphreys's FBI File -- Appendix C: Poster from the Washington University Bulletin Board -- Appendix D: Systematic Observation Sheet -- Appendix E: Data Sources and Methods -- References -- Index.