Institutional Selves Troubled Identities in a Postmodern World

Name: Institutional Selves Troubled Identities in a Postmodern World
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ISBN: 9780195129281

ISBN-10: 0195129288

ISBN-13: 9780195129281

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein

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Today, identities are conferred and selves are constructed in more organizational settings than ever before. Institutions large and small - from Psychiatric hospitals, schools, and prisons, to job clinics, counselling centres, support groups - virtually instruct us about who and what we are as part of the work they do in processing lives and personal troubles. Some see this negatively, as if the self might somehow escape these developments. But there is a more balanced view that acknowledges the socially practical self we live by, which is constructed in light of these new and diverse opportunities. If organizations inevitably shape selves in today's world, they do so by providing the…

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/3/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Notes on Contributors


Introduction: Trying Times, Troubles Selves



Institutional Identities


Victims, Villains, and Talk



Doubled Over in Laughter: Humor and the Construction of Selves in Alcoholics Anonymous



Changing the Subject: Self-Construction in Brief Therapy



Self-Empowerment in Two Therapeutic Communities




Constructing Institutional Selves


Lived Realities and Formula Stories of "Battered Women"Joseph Hopper: Contested Selves in Divorce Proceedings



Universities as Discursive Environments for Sexual Identity Construction



Self-Presentation and Organizational Processing in a Human Service Agency



Self-Change and Resistance in Prison



Author Index


Subject Index