The Strength of Weak Identities: Social Structural Sources of Self, Situation and Emotional Experience

Autor/in	Smith-Lovin, Lynn
Titel	The Strength of Weak Identities: Social Structural Sources of Self, Situation and Emotional Experience
Quelle	In: Social Psychology Quarterly, 70 (2007) 2, S.106-124 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2725
DOI	10.1177/019027250707000203
Schlagwörter	Social Structure; Social Change; Self Concept; Identification; Emotional Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialstruktur; Sozialer Wandel; Selbstkonzept; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	Modern societies are highly differentiated, with relatively uncorrelated socially salient dimensions and a preponderance of weak, unidimensional (as opposed to strong, multiplex) ties. What are the implications of a society with fewer strong ties and more weak ties for the self? What do these changes mean for our emotional experience in everyday life? I outline a structural view of self, situated identity, and emotion. It is an ecological theory in which interpersonal encounters are the link between the macro-level community structure and the micro-level experience of self-conception, identity performance, and emotion. In this ecology of encounters, multiple-identity enactments (especially of salient self-identities) are quite rare. But where they occur, they are important indicators of potential social change. (Contains 1 table and 6 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10