Hello :)
I found this forum while looking for good sociologic theories on identity, so I hope its okay to ask this question here. If it isnt just remove me :D
Do you know any good books on the balance of ones on identity or rather the multitude of ones identities? How we balance those identities. How one can be authentic to oneselfs "true" identity maybe or if such a things as a true identity really exists. I am especially interested in our everyday lifes here, problems such as trying to become one specific person, as can be seen in the movies, come to mind. The conflict of feeling "kind of fake" when acting different in all kinds of settings.
I kind of wonder if we often get lost in our search for our one true identity. I feel like we are told that a strong person always has the same identity. But is that really true?
I like Zygmunt Bauman's work. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Identity-Coversations-Benedetto-Conversations-Century/dp/0745633099
I don't think there's many sociologists who would think we have 1 identity...but there might be some social psy folk. Personally I don't, and I don't think identity is the type of thing that can be 'true' -how would we judge this etc. Rather there are social expressions which are closer or further from the persons desires, wants and needs.
Its a pretty big area! Look forward to other's suggestions
Dear, Anna Voigt , Volume II of the information age of the sociologist Manuel Castells, can be useful
Dear Anna,
since this question surely involves a psychological dimension, I would definitively recommend George Casper Homans (e.g. "Elementary Forms of Social Behavior", 1974, New Yor: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).
Another paper that addresses this question is: James E. Cote ("Sociological perspectives on identity formation: the culture–identity link and identity capital", Journal of Adolescence 1996, 19, 417–428.
Kind regards, Volker
I would recommend following books on identity
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Experiencing Identity by Ian Craib
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