Forum: Identity - Discussing a Vague Concept

• Authors: Andrea Spreafico , Richard Handler , Doris Bühler-Niederberger , Jean-Claude Kaufmann
• Languages of publication: EN
• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 197-207

Dates

published

2011-10-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Andrea Spreafico

• University of Perugia

author

Richard Handler

• University of Virginia

author

Doris Bühler-Niederberger

• University of Wuppertal

author

Jean-Claude Kaufmann

• National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) University Paris Descartes, The Research Centre on Social Relations CERLIS

References

• Dumont, Louis. (1965) The Individual in Two Types of Society. Contributions to Indian Sociology 8:7-12.
• Gleason, Philip. (1983) Identifying Identity: A Semantic History. Journal of American History 69:910-31.[Crossref]
• Handler, Richard. (1997) Interpreting the Predicament of Culture Theory Today. Social Analysis 41[3]:72-83.
• ----------. (2005) Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Tocqueville, Alexis de. (1840) Democracy in America, vol. 2. Trans. Henry Reeve. New York: Knopf [1954].
• Whorf, Benjamin Lee. (1941) The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language. In Language, Thought, and Reality, pp. 134-59. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2011-0029