Measuring Identity (eBook, PDF)

A Guide for Social Scientists
Redaktion: Abdelal, Rawi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 methodological challenges associated with treating identity as a variable, offer a synthetic theoretical framework, and demonstrate the possibilities offered by various methods of measurement. The book represents a collection of empirically-grounded theoretical discussions of a range of methodological techniques for the study of identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511512834
• Artikelnr.: 38197160

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Definition, Conceptualization, and Measurement Alternatives: 1.
Identity as a variable Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain
Johnston, and Rose McDermott; 2. Conceptualizing and measuring ethnic
identity Henry E. Brady and Cynthia S. Kaplan; 3. Tradeoffs in measuring
identities: a comparison of five approaches Donald A. Sylvan and Amanda K.
Metskas; Part II. Survey Methods: 4. Between social theory and social
science practice: towards a new approach to the survey measurement of
'race' Taeku Lee; 5. Balancing national and ethnic identities: the
psychology of e pluribus unum Jack Citrin and David O. Sears; 6. Black and
blue: black identity and black solidarity in an era of conservative triumph
Michael Dawson; Part III. Content Analysis and Cognitive Mapping: 7.
Quantitative content analysis and the measurement of collective identity
Kimberly Neuendorf and Paul D. Skalski; 8. The content and intersection of
identity in Iraq Robalyn Stone and Michael Young; 9. A constructivist
dataset on ethnicity and institutions Kanchan Chandra; Part IV. Discourse
Analysis and Ethnography: 10. Identity relations and the Sino-Soviet split
Ted Hopf; 11. Techniques for measuring identity in ethnographic research
Laura Adams; Part V. Experiments: 12. Psychological approaches to identity:
experimentation and application Rose McDermott.