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Measuring Identity A Guide for Social Scientists

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ISBN-10: 0521732093

ISBN-13: 9780521732093

Edition: 2008

Authors: Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston, Rose McDermott

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The concept of identity has become increasingly prominent in the social sciences and humanities. Analysis of the development of social identities is an important focus of scholarly research, and scholars using social identities as the building blocks of social, political, and economic life have attempted to account for a number of discrete outcomes by treating identities as causal factors. The dominant implication of the vast literature on identity is that social identities are among the most important social facts of the world in which we live. Abdelal, Herrera, Johnston, and McDermott have brought together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to consider the conceptual and…    
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Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 438
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.09" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Yoshiko M. Herrera is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Imagined Economies: The Sources of Russian Regionalism and coeditor of Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists.

Rose McDermott is professor of political science at Brown University. She is the author of numerous books, including Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making.�

Contributors
Introduction
Definition, Conceptualization, And Measurement Alternatives
Identity as a Variable
Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethnic Identify
Trade-offs in Measuring Identities: A Comparison of Five Approaches
Survey Methods
Between Social Theory and Social Science Practice: Toward a New Approach to the Survey Measurement of "Race"
Balancing National and Ethnic Identities: The Psychology of E Pluribus Unum
Black and Blue: Black Identity and Black Solidarity in an Era of Conservative Triumph
Content Analysis And Cognitive Mapping
Quantitative Content Analysis and the Measurement of Collective Identity
The Content and Intersection of Identity in Iraq
A Constructivist Dataset on Ethnicity and Institutions
Discourse Analysis And Ethnography
Identity Relations and the Sino-Soviet Split
Techniques for Measuring Identity in Ethnographic Research
Experiments
Psychological Approaches to Identity: Experimentation and Application
Bibliography
Index