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  • Negotiating Identity

    Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Social Identity

    by Susie Scott ...
    Identity is never just an individual matter; it is intricately shaped by our experiences of social life. Taking a Symbolic Interactionist approach, and drawing on Goffman’s dramaturgical theory, Susie Scott explores the micro-social processes of interaction through which identities are created, maintained, challenged and reinvented. With a focus on empirical studies as illustrations, classic ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Narratives of Nothing

    Storying the Unlived Life

    by Susie Scott ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how episodes of ‘nothing’, or lost experience, shape accounts of self-identity.What is the most important thing that is not in your life? We tell stories about absent people, missed opportunities, things we yearn or wish for and events that never happened. These negative phenomena hold special meanings in memory and imagination, and can have a deep emotional impact. They help us ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Angels of a Lower Flight

    One Woman's Mission to Save a Country . . . One Child at a Time

    by Susie Scott Krabacher ...
    "In this world, you were loved."The inspiring story of how one woman's message of hope and opportunity will change the lives of an entire generation.Three schools, two orphanages, a hospital, and an abandoned-infant home -- constructed in the poorest country in the western hemisphere -- were the result of one quick television commercial. The ad was for a charity, asking for donations to help ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Existential Selves

    Freedom, Chaos and the Search for Meaning

    Edited by Susie Scott, James Hardie-Bick ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume draws on existentialist ideas from philosophy, psychology and sociology to explore some intriguing questions. How do good people commit evil deeds? Which parts of our selves do we try to hide from others – and from ourselves? How do we find a balance between routine predictability and chaotic despair? What excuses do we make to avoid taking responsibility for our (in)actions? Focusing ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Interpreting Identities

    Dimensions of Power, Presence, and Belonging

    Edited by Wayne H. Brekhus, Susie Scott ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    This edited collection brings together social scientists to interpret identity from a wide range of analytical perspectives. Drawing on multiple interpretive traditions from the last 100 years, the book explores how underlying social, cultural and psychological forces shape the dimensions of identity.Chapters emphasize how identity forms and functions in relation to key sociological issues such as ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Ex-treme Identities and Transitions Out of Extraordinary Roles

    Edited by James Hardie-Bick, Susie Scott ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the experience of leaving unusual or extreme situations: from military careers to religious communities, subcultures, criminal groups and political leadership. It explores how people become disillusioned with and disengaged from these social worlds, challenging their sense of self-identity and cultural belonging. Each chapter considers how participants negotiate the process of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Social Life of Nothing

    Silence, Invisibility and Emptiness in Tales of Lost Experience

    by Susie Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand ourselves through other, unlived lives that are imaginatively possible. This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena – no-things, no ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Everyday Life

    by Susie Scott ...
    This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane 'micro' level practices of everyday life.Each chapter is organized around three main themes ... Read more

    $22.00 USD