Putting the Social into Personal Identity: The Master Narrative as Root Metaphor for Psychological and Developmental Science

Hammack, Phillip L.; Toolis, Erin E.

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“…Our analysis was guided by our conceptual interest in how men engaged with cultural narratives about PrEP and its impact on both public health and sexual culture. This approach was anchored in narrative engagement theory in social psychology, which posits that individuals appropriate or repudiate narrative content to match their sense of identity and position their group in a positive light (e.g., Hammack & Toolis, 2016). Beyond simply categorizing narratives as "positive" or "negative" with regard to their stance on PrEP, we sought to identify the meaning participants were actively making of PrEP and its impact.…”

Section: Narratives About Prepmentioning

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Making Meaning of the Impact of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) on Public Health and Sexual Culture: Narratives of Three Generations of Gay and Bisexual Men

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Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with Truvada has emerged as an increasingly common approach to HIV prevention among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. This study examined generational differences and similarities in narrative accounts of PrEP among a diverse sample of 89 gay and bisexual men in the U.S. Over 50% of men in the older (52-59 years) and younger (18-25 years) generations endorsed positive views, compared with 32% of men in the middle (34-41 years) generation. Men in the middle cohort expressed the most negative (21%) and ambivalent (47%) views of PrEP. Thematic analysis of men's narratives revealed three central stories about the perceived impact of PrEP: (1) PrEP has a positive impact on public health by preventing HIV transmission (endorsed more frequently by men in the older and younger cohorts); (2) PrEP has a positive effect on gay and bisexual men's sexual culture by decreasing anxiety and making sex more enjoyable (endorsed more frequently by men in the middle and younger cohorts); and (3) PrEP has a negative impact on public health and sexual culture by increasing condomless, multi-partner sex (endorsed more frequently by men in the middle and younger cohorts). Results are discussed in terms of the significance of generation cohort in meanings of sexual health and culture and implications for public health approaches to PrEP promotion among gay and bisexual men.

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Section: Narratives About Prepmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Meaning of the Impact of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) on Public Health and Sexual Culture: Narratives of Three Generations of Gay and Bisexual Men

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“…Like all narratives, those collected by Savin-Williams [2016] provide just a snapshot in time for the history of the individual and the group. Hammack DOI: 10.1159/000486469 Personal narratives provide a momentary window into the course of a culture by revealing the circulating discourses appropriated at one point in time to provide a sense of meaning and coherence [Hammack, 2008[Hammack, , 2011Hammack & Toolis, 2016]. In the narratives of these men, I heard ambivalence about the new gay male sexual culture, far more diverse and "liberated" than the sexual culture in which I initially "came out."…”

Section: "The Slutty Stereotypes Are True": Silence and Stigma In Thementioning

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Gay Men’s Identity Development in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change, Normalization and Resistance

Hammack¹

2018

Human Development

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“…One of the key features of master narratives is that they are compulsory [Hammack & Toolis, 2016;McLean & Syed, 2016]. In the course of socialization, children learn their culture's master narrative, through participation in daily life, through the telling of stories, and sometimes through direct instruction [Fivush et al, 2011;Habermas & Reese, 2015].…”

Section: Alternative and Counternarratives Of Life Stagesmentioning

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“…Master narratives provide materials for the development of a personal identity, but they also constrain the range of acceptable identities. That is, the development of a personal identity entails not simply the process of selecting from a limitless range of possibilities, but selecting from possibilities that conform to the master narrative [Hammack, 2008;Hammack & Toolis, 2016]. In this sense, master narratives have a moral component; they not only offer guidance for developing an identity, they tell us how we should be [McLean & Syed, 2016].…”

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Life Stage Concepts across History and Cultures: Proposal for a New Field on Indigenous Life Stages

Arnett¹

2016

Human Development

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This paper draws attention to the pervasiveness of life stage concepts in human cultures and advocates the creation of a new field of study on indigenous life stage concepts. First, historical and cultural examples are presented to illustrate the widespread use of life stage concepts across times and places. Then, sociological research on the institutionalization of life stages in the 19th and 20th centuries in industrial societies is summarized, but with a new interpretation of how those life stage concepts arose. Next, the idea of life stages as master narratives is proposed, as a way of explaining how life stages provide the raw material for individuals to construct a personal identity narrative. The paper concludes by proposing that the exploration of indigenous life stage concepts is an exciting new potential field of study.

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Putting the Social into Personal Identity: The Master Narrative as Root Metaphor for Psychological and Developmental Science

Cited by 58 publications

References 55 publications

Making Meaning of the Impact of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) on Public Health and Sexual Culture: Narratives of Three Generations of Gay and Bisexual Men

Making Meaning of the Impact of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) on Public Health and Sexual Culture: Narratives of Three Generations of Gay and Bisexual Men

Gay Men’s Identity Development in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change, Normalization and Resistance

Life Stage Concepts across History and Cultures: Proposal for a New Field on Indigenous Life Stages

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