Table of Contents

1: Sources of Identity.- 1 The Me and the Not-Me: Positive and Negative Poles of Identity.- 2 Roots of Identity: Family Resemblances.- 3 Identities and Behavior.- II: Identities and Social Structure.- 4 The Political Self: Identity Resources for Radical Democracy.- 5 Identity and Inequality: Exploring Links between Self and Stratification Processes.- 6 The Role of Self-Evaluation in Identity Salience and Commitment.- III: Identities, Emotion, and Health.- 7 Justice, Emotion, and Identity Theory.- 8 Feeling Good, Feeling Well: Identity, Emotion, and Health.- 9 Interaction, Emotion, and Collective Identities.- 10 Using Identity Discrepancy Theory to Predict Psychological Distress.- IV: Multiple Identities.- 11 The Self, Multiple Identities and the Production of Mixed Emotions.- 12 Personal Agency in the Accumulation of Multiple Role-Identities.- 13 Relationships among Multiple Identities.- Final Commentary: A Peek Ahead.

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From the reviews: "This volume focuses on the culturally embedded nature of the self, and on the social categories in which persons find themselves and with which they relate themselves to others. a ] the structural symbolic interaction perspective offers many important tools for understanding the socially embedded nature of selves; and this volume offers a nice collection of contemporary articles from this perspective that covers many of the important issues surrounding personhood." (Liam Dempsey, MentalHelp.net, March, 2005)