Intersubjectivity and Bourdieusian Approaches to ‘Identity’

Intersubjectivity and Bourdieusian approaches to ‘ identity ’ Wendy Bottero

Bourdieu’s emphasis on the socialised subjectivity of habitus is increasingly used in discussions of ‘identity’ to indicate the limits to reflexivity, situating ‘identity’ in tacit practice. In emphasising the dispositional nature of ‘identity’, analysts also acknowledge more explicitly reflexive and selfconsciously mobilised aspects, however Bourdieu’s restrictive treatment of reflexivity make...

Dan Zahavi Beyond Empathy Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity

Drawing on the work of Scheler, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl and Sartre, this article presents an overview of some of the diverse approaches to intersubjectivity that can be found in the phenomenological tradition. Starting with a brief description of Scheler’s criticism of the argument from analogy, the article continues by showing that the phenomenological analyses of intersubjectivity i...

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

New Approaches to Planning and Academic Identity Schisms in Higher Education

The purpose of the research was to gain the lived experience of the faculty from the status of academic identities; and how new approaches to planning based on managerialism create the schism of academic identities. The research method was grounded theory. Data were collected through in-depth qualitative interviews with 16 faculty members based on theoretical and purposeful sampling, at Mazanda...

Comparing psychological and sociological approaches to identity: identity status, identity capital, and the individualization process.

Psychologists have been studying identity processes at the intrapsychic level that resemble what sociologists have noted at the macro-societal level. Specifically, using the identity capital model introduced in previous issues of this journal (Côté, Journal of Adolescence, 19, 419-430; 20, 421-437), we explore a link between the psychologically oriented identity status paradigm, and the sociolo...