■ Abstract In this chapter I review the social psychological underpinnings of identity, emphasizing social cognitive and symbolic interactionist perspectives and research, and I turn then to key themes of current work on identity—social psychological, sociological, and interdisciplinary. I emphasize the social bases of identity, particularly identities based on ethnicity, race, sexuality, gende...

The early development of autobiographical memory is a useful case study both for examining general relations between language and memory, and for investigating the promise and the difficulty of interdisciplinary research in the cognitive sciences of memory. An otherwise promising social-interactionist view of autobiographical memory development relies in part on an overly linguistic conception ...

The complexities of intimate partner abuse and violence have been studied from a range of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological perspectives. It is argued here that symbolic interactionist analyses offer specific and powerful insights into this particular interactional domain. This article is based on data generated by a topical life-history case study of a well-educated, middle-class, mi...

Symbolic interactionist principles of sociology are based on the idea that human action is guided by culturally shared symbolic representations of identities, behaviours, situations and emotions. Shared linguistic, paralinguistic, or kinesic elements allow humans to coordinate action by enacting identities in social situations. Structures of identitybased interactions can lead to the enactment ...

Recent literature reviews highlight a gap in our understanding of how members socialize into virtual communities. Motivated by this shortcoming, we seek to understand how members socialize into open source software (OSS) communities, which are both virtual and normative in nature. Using the symbolic interactionist perspective, we define socialization and explicate the socialization process in O...

This paper proposes two design approaches for developing affective tools. The first design is based on an information processing approach and describes a tool that utilizes classification algorithms for automated emotion recognition. The second design follows an interactionist philosophy and describes a visualization tool to support learner/instructor interpretation of affective feedback. These...

Variations in grounded theory (GT) interpretation are the subject of ongoing debate. Divergences of opinion, genres, approaches, methodologies, and methods exist, resulting in disagreement on what GT methodology is and how it comes to be. From the postpositivism of Glaser and Strauss, to the symbolic interactionist roots of Strauss and Corbin, through to the constructivism of Charmaz, the field...

Pedagogy Transparency is a quality driven concept built from the junction of the new pedagogy movement, based on Vygotsky ́s social interactionist theory, and the notion of information disclosure. Pedagogy Transparency aims the disclosure to students of how they are being taught and why, as to improve their awareness about the learning process. We present a study conducted to evaluate three peda...

Despite increasing interest in gendered sexuality over the life course, a comprehensive conceptual model, applicable to all aspects of sexual life and incorporating recent developments in life course sociology, feminist theory, and sexuality studies, has yet to be elaborated. The model presented here posits that sexual beliefs and behaviors result from individuals’ lifelong accumulation of adva...

This paper examines how semantic knowledge is used in language comprehension and in making judgments about events in the world. We contrast knowledge gleaned from prior language experience ("language knowledge") and knowledge coming from prior experience with the world ("world knowledge"). In two corpus analyses, we show that previous research linking verb aspect and event representations have ...