Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "identity"
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African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and ‘managing the self’
(Routledge, 2012)Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best ... -
Identity and Security: Identity Distance Theory and Regional Affairs in Northeast and Southeast Asia
(2013-01-02)The dissertation explores the relationship between identity and international security, and tests the effect of the former on the latter by analyzing a set of puzzling phenomena in East Asia—the emergence of mutual threat ... -
In Search of Identity and Legitimation: Bridging Organizational Culture and Neoinstitutionalism
(Sage Publications, 2006)In the late 1970s, neoinstitutional and organizational culture theorists challenged prevailing rationalist organizational paradigms by introducing social constructionism to the field of organizations. Despite their common ... -
Motherhood on the Outside: Reintegration and Moral Meaning Making among Ex-Offender Mothers
(2013-09-30)This dissertation examines how formerly incarcerated mothers manage the moral ambiguity associated with their ex-offender identity. In studying this group I address how the event of motherhood shapes how women frame their ... -
The neural mechanisms for the recognition of face identity in humans
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)Every day we encounter dozens of people, and in order to interact with them appropriately we need to recognize their identity. The face is a crucial source of information to recognize a person’s identity. However, recognizing ... -
Nile Crossings: Hospitality and Revenge in Egyptian Rural Narratives
(Brill, 2010)This essay looks at acts of hospitality and revenge as constituent elements of a broad social code in rural Egyptian narratives. By looking at five stories in particular, I argue that hospitality and revenge work in ... -
A Note on the Value of Gender Identification
(Clarendon Press, 1995)Engaging with Susan Wolf's question of what role the concept of gender ought to play in an ideal world, Korsgaard argues that gender does not and should not be a deep fact about the identity of human beings. Presumption ... -
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things: Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective
(Routledge, 2012)This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated ... -
Personalizing Tradition: Surinamese Maroon Music and Dance in Contemporary Urban Practice
(2013-02-25)Through comparing the repertoires, presentational characteristics, and rehearsal procedures of Surinamese Maroon culture-based performance groups within Paramaribo, I outline the concept of personalizing tradition. This ... -
The Self in Social Contexts
(Annual Reviews, 1994)