ID Troubles

Princeton University Press eBooks, 2001

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012

How nations construct themselves is a question that has catalyzed literally tens of thousands of scholarly articles and books. 1 In the present chapter, I address the implications that the " making identity count " project raises for existing conceptual , theoretical, and methodological approaches within this vast literature. If we accept that nations and their identities can and should be studied in a more valid and systematic manner introduced in this volume, then it also stands to reason that " making identity count " offers up an opportunity to advance other fields of inquiry, not just International Relations (IR). In what follows, I explore renderings of the link between national identity and political order in anthropology, history, social psychology, sociology, and IR. Of course, such an exercise will only scratch the surface of this voluminous literature, but I aim to form enough linkages and relations to indicate the wider relevance of the framework advanced in this volume. I begin below by looking at how anthropologists first essentialized and then de-essentialized nations. In the next two sections I examine some paths by which this project can enter into a dialogue with social psychology and sociology, respectively. Turning to history, I show how " making identity count " could contribute to the knowledge production in this field. In the final section I go back to IR once again, suggesting the ways this project could help overcome current limitations in analyzing the construction of national communities within a broader global society.

Sociológia-Slovak Sociological Review, 2002

Proceedings of the 21st-Century Gulf: The Challenge of Identity, 2010

Because of the economic and job market requirements, the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) countries have acquired extremely high proportion of migrant workers in the world, and is considered as the third largest in the world after the European Union and North America. Supported by the expansion of the oil industry, the colossal influx of foreign residents and workforce led to the exacerbation of the demographic imbalance in the GCC countries. This had an enormous impact on the region‘s landscape both socially and economically. There are serious concerns among GCC countries about the stability of the national identity in light of the disproportionate population demographics. This paper touches upon the subject of the national identity in GCC countries, and present some recent statistics about the population demographics. It also presents one of the approaches followed by the GCC countries; namely, identity management systems, to allow their governments and policy makers develop and regulate their national identity strategies and the labour market.

Baltic Journal of European Studies, 2013

The conceptual and methodological tools of Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) are applied to a particular instance of an individual at variance with dominant societal norms in order to demonstrate the efficacy of ISA for elucidating complex identity processes in socio-historical and biographical context. The empirical results presented in this article indicate that the interrelationship between societal constraints and individual values and beliefs are shown to be effectively detailed using ISA.

Forum University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture the Arts, 2010

2005

The search for identity is itself problematic. It is a pervasive theme in our society. Social scientists, cultural studies scholars, dramatists and the like, use the term identity in a variety of ways to explain an assortment of phenomena. Some familiar words like identity crisis, finding oneself, self-esteem, self-actualization, are used in the search for identity. At various levels, identity and culture are either pole apart, closely knit, can stand for one another or are interrelated. Whichever way however, we form our identity by carefully and deliberately selecting values, beliefs, and concepts that better define our sense of self. This is why identity cannot invariably be wholly separated from the culture(s) which build, structure and sustain it.

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