IDENTITY WORK AMONG THE HOMELESS - THE VERBAL CONSTRUCTION AND AVOWAL OF PERSONAL IDENTITIES
IDENTITY WORK AMONG THE HOMELESS - THE VERBAL CONSTRUCTION AND AVOWAL OF PERSONAL IDENTITIES
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DOI：
10.1086/228668
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发表时间：
1987-05-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
ANDERSON, L
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作者：
SNOW, DA;ANDERSON, L
本文阐述了无家可归的街头流浪者的身份建构和声明的过程，考虑到两个基本的和相互关联的目标：促进理解的方式，在身份系统的底部的个人试图产生的身份，为他们提供一个自我价值和尊严的措施，并摆脱额外的经验和理论之间的关系，角色，身份和自我概念。这些数据来自对无家可归的街头流浪者的民族志实地研究。“身份对话”构成了流浪汉建构和协商个人身份的“身份工作”的主要形式。身份话语的三种一般模式是：疏远，拥抱和虚构的故事。每个表单包含几个子类型，根据在街道上度过的时间长短，这些子类型的用法各不相同。最后，本文讨论了研究结果的理论意义，并提出了一些接地的命题之间的关系的角色，身份和自我。
This paper elaborates processes of identity construction and avowal among homeless street people, with two underlying and interconected objectives in mind: to advance understanding of the manner in wich individuals at the bottom of status systems attempt to generate identities that provide them with a measures of self-worth and dignity and to shed additional empirical and theoretical light on the relationships among role, identity, and self-concept. The data are from an ethnographic field study of homeless street people. "Identity talk" constitutes the primary form of "identity work" by means of which homeless street people construct and negotiate personal identities. Theree generic patterns of identity talk are alborated and illustrated: distancing, embracement, and fictive storytelling. Each form contains several subtypes that vary in usage according to the length of time one has spent on the streets. The paper concludes by discussing the theoretical implications of the findings and suggesting a number of grounded propositions regarding the relationship among role, identity, and self.