This article argues for reconfiguring the study of identity formatio through the concept of
narrative. It is motivated by two recent bu seemingly unrelated developments in social theory�…

Debates about identity have become increasingly tendentious in recent years. Rejecting
earlier arguments that assumed an integrated and transparent self, contemporary social�…

I argue that the study of narrative identity would benefit from more sustained and explicit
attention to relationships among cultural, institutional, organizational, and personal�…

THIS ISSUE of Social Science History inaugurates a series of five articles, to be published
over the next few issues, on the subject of narrative and the formation of social identities�…

One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search foridentity'. Using the five
theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both arich'discursive resource and a�…

What I wish to do in this final chapter is identify a number of basic categories and questions
that have grown out of the preceding chapters and, ultimately, chart a direction for future�…

In recent years, qualitative researchers have in varied ways conceptualized selves and
identities as narratively constructed. In this article, we offer a typology for viewing, the�…

Every knowledge discipline needs an" epistemological other" to consolidate a cohesive self-
identity and collective pr0ject. l For the social sciences, the concept of narrative-with its long�…

THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL IDENTITY, as described by social identity theory (Tajfel and
Turner 1979) and its subsequent elaboration, self-categorization theory (Turner et al. 1987)�…

In its urgency to establish itself as a science, sociology missed the opportunity to nurture its
narrative character that the Thomas and Znaniecki research represented. Another moment�…