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Identity Theory and Personality Theory: Mutual Relevance
Author(s) -
Stryker Sheldon
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00468.x
Subject(s) - symbolic interactionism , identity (music) , relevance (law) , personality , social identity approach , social identity theory , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , personality theory , frame (networking) , interactionism , sociology , social group , social science , computer science , telecommunications , philosophy , physics , political science , acoustics , law
Some personality psychologists have found a structural symbolic interactionist frame and identity theory relevant to their work. This frame and theory, developed in sociology, are first reviewed. Emphasized in the review are a multiple identity conception of self, identities as internalized expectations derived from roles embedded in organized networks of social interaction, and a view of social structures as facilitators in bringing people into networks or constraints in keeping them out, subsequently, attention turns to a discussion of the mutual relevance of structural symbolic interactionism/identity theory and personality theory, looking to extensions of the current literature on these topics.