<http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43651> Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media ISSN The later book Woodward 2007 not only provides a broad introduction to the debates, but also includes extracts from key texts and questions for the reader (also cited under Defining Identity). Margaret Somers, "The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and network approach," Theory and Society 23 (1994): 605-49. Oxford: Blackwell. BnC distinguishes between strong and weak notions of identity. Lastly, the post-modern take on identity finds it unstable, multiple, fluctuating and fragmented. Charting its historical roots, BnC points to the 1960s as the point at which academics (mainly in the US) started paying attention to identity for social analysis. The project is funded largely through a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium fr Bildung und Forschung). Identity too relies on both categories. Using a very similar example of Hungarians and Romanians in Transylvania, BnC argues further that even constructivist notions of identity disposes us to think in terms of bounded groupness, for it connotes that identity is always there (even though its weak, fragmented, in flux) as something individuals and groups have. The contributors to Woodward 2004 draw on work from various disciplines, focusing on issues of identity relating to gender, class, ethnicity, race, and nation. Beyond 'Identity' Social Theory and the Politics of Identity: Craig Calhoun (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). This focus includes a wealth of work on identity-based violence, xenophobia, multiculturalism, and social movements known as identity politics, in which groups advocate legal recognition of their identities. Overview of 3 ethnographies in States of Imaginati Summary of Ethnic Boundary Making by Andreas Wimmer, Summary of Beyond Identity - Brubaker and Cooper. London: SAGE. The problem with identity here is that it creates the illusion of bounded groupness. Personal identity and the Phineas Gage effect. As the term has gained popularity, so have its meanings shifted. We take these three elements and make an amalgamation. Learn more about Institutional subscriptions, You can also search for this author in OpenEdition est un portail de ressources lectroniques en sciences humaines et sociales. He also mentions that the first usage is compatible with all the others.