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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821181103321

Autore

Dashtipour Parisa

Titolo

Social identity in question : construction, subjectivity, and critique / / Parisa Dashtipour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove, East Sussex, : New York, NY, : Routledge, 2012

Hove, East Sussex : , : New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-24537-5

1-283-52130-X

9786613833754

1-136-24538-3

0-203-10358-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 144 p.)

Collana

Concepts for critical psychology : disciplinary boundaries for re-thought

Disciplina

305

Soggetti

Group identity

Interpersonal relations

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction. 2. The social identity tradition and its critics. 3. The category, not the self. 4. What ever happened to '"hot" aspects of the group'? 5. Another story of the minimal group paradigm. 6. Social change or socio-symbolic symptom? 7. Gringo: a case study. 8. Conclusions. References.

Sommario/riassunto

Social identity theory is one of the most influential approaches to identity, group processes, intergroup relations, and social change. This text draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Lacanian social theorists to investigate and rework the predominant concepts in the social identity framework.