Accomplishing Identity in Participant-Denoting Discourse (original) (raw)

Social identification beyond the speech event

School socializes children into institutional and academic practices. Because socialization occurs over time, it cannot be analyzed simply by describing typical speech events that occur in school. In addition, we must analyze trajectories of events across which schoolchildren become different kinds of people. This paper analyzes the social identification that occurred in one ninth grade U.S. high school English and history classroom over an academic year, tracing events across which one student developed a distinctive social identity. The analysis attends to more widely circulating categories and practices, but also describes how these were contextualized and sometimes transformed both in the local classroom ecology and in particular events. The paper first describes a robust local model of gender identity, through which teachers and students identified the girls as academically promising and the boys as academically unpromising. It illustrates this model by showing how the prototyp...

Identifications in Social Contexts. ‘I Am… Who I Am…’

2018

Individuals do not have fixed identifications. How they identify—how they position themselves—depends on the social context. The interviewees described that they yearned to belong in the various fields. They negotiated this belonging both in coethnic contexts, such as the family, and in interethnic contexts, such as at school and in the workplace. In coethnic fields, participants were often confronted with behavioral expectations that ran counter to their own autonomous preferences. In interethnic fields, despite their social mobility, the interviewees sometimes faced an exclusionary labeling that conflicted with how they want to be seen, namely, as one of ‘us’ in that particular situation. Labeling minority individuals in ethnic terms is an act of exclusion, leading to categorization resistance, for various reasons. Although such labeling can be very coercive, individuals do not lack agency. They have various responses at their disposal. Here, the achieved social mobility functions...

Personal Identity versus Social Identity

Scientific Dialogue: Issues of Humanitarian Studies, 2017

Center of Scientific Cooperation "Interactive plus" 1 Content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY 4.0) Ибраева Баян Мукушевна канд. филол. наук, профессор, заведующая кафедрой ЧУ Академия «Болашак» г. Караганда, Республика Казахстан

Perception and the Revisability of Social Identity

Our common understanding of perception doesn’t seem to be able to account for the influence of social identity on perception. In line with this problem, I explore the relationship between social identities as they are commonly conceived and our perceptual faculties. I begin by analyzing theories of the perception of objects. In this discussion, I argue against the standard view of perception in order to show that perception presents us with a conceptually rooted understanding of the perceived object and its relations to other objects. As part of this discussion, I explore the formation of our perceptual faculties. These considerations preface a discussion of our social identity concepts and their influence on the development of subjects. I posit a relationship between how we conceive of social identity and the development of subjects wherein subjects develop in accordance with these conceptions. This view raises questions about how we ought to conceive of social identities. In response to these concerns, I will ultimately argue that our social identity concepts are constantly in the process of revision and that any attempt to ground the revision of these social identity concepts in a particular standard falls into the myth of the given. What matters as regards the development of social identity concepts isn’t their rootedness in any particular foundation, but rather their revisability.

Self-categorization and social identification: Making sense of us and them

2020

In this chapter, we provide an overview of social psychological theories on social identity, including social identity theory (Tajfel, 1978; Tajfel & Turner, 1979) and self-categorization theory (Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher & Wetherell, 1987), and review newer approaches (e.g., to multiple categorization) that relate social identification to intergroup relations.

Social Identification, Interdependence and Discrimination

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 1998

Identification u'ith the ingroup is a rreccssan' condition for ingroup faloritisrn. Operationalll,. the corrcept of ingrotrp identificatior-r irnplics belraviors u'hich are onll.dcdtrcible fron tlre fact that an individual has in sonre degrce rcdcfined himself as a mcmber of thatgroup (Turuer, 1978, p. l{t7). ... ue lrave shou'n that the allocation behavior in the MGP is perfectlv rational, instrumental and utiliurian at lcast rr'hen rnonetal-\' ot)tcomes are invollcd (Rabbie , Schot, & \'isser, 1989, p.197). Socrar tDENTrry rHEoRy (SIT; Tajfel & Turner, 1986) originated as an explanation of Group Processes €l [ntergroup Rclations 1998Vol l(1): a9-66 the discrimination effect obtained in the Minimal Group Paradigm (\{CP; Tajfel, Flament, Billig, & Bundy, 1971). In a qpical minimal