Identity Work Among the Homeless: The Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities

Operating Room: Relational Spaces and Microinstitutional Change in Surgery

“…The isolation of free spaces from defenders is critical to mobilization because, for oppositional capacities to develop and become shared, reformers need some autonomous space where they are at least temporarily shielded from agents of social control (Fantasia and Hirsch 1995;Gamson 1996). The setting for interaction apart from daily work provided by free spaces is critical because oppositional efficacy, identity, and frames are created in encounters in intimate settings (Snow and Anderson 1987;Fantasia 1988;Hirsch 1990a). The examination of where these free spaces are and what happens in them is useful to understanding the oppositional mobilization processes by which reformers ready themselves to challenge defenders.…”

Perceived stigma and self-stigma of problem gambling: perspectives of people with gambling problems

“…And just to be able to come out and say it. (27, M, 25-34) People may be reluctant to self-acknowledge their problem because identifying as 'a problem gambler' is likely to discredit their identity, contradict their desired self-concept, and erode dignity and self-worth (Snow & Anderson, 1987). Two participants alluded to this when explaining why they had not told their families: I don't tell them anything and I have a million and one excuses of where the money went or why I've got, how I got this, and why this is not paid.…”

Collective Identity and Expressive Forms

“…These processes have been conceptualized as variants of "identity work," which encompasses the range of activities people engage in, both individually and collectively, to signify and express who they are and what they stand for in relation or contrast to some set of others (Schwalbe and MasonSchrock 1996; Snow and Anderson 1987;Snow and McAdam 2000). At its core is the generation, invocation, and maintenance of symbolic resources used to bound and distinguish the collectivity both internally and externally by accenting commonalities and differences (Eisenstadt and Giesen 1995;Schwalbe and Mason-Schrock 1996;Taylor and Whittier 1992).…”

“…They are especially likely to be asserted during the course of interaction when other-imputed social identities are regarded as contradictory, as when individuals are cast into social roles or categories that are insulting and demeaning (Snow and Anderson 1987). Thus, personal identities may derive from role incumbency or category-based memberships, but they are not necessarily comparable since the relative salience of social roles or category membership with respect to personal identity can be quite variable.…”