Measuring Identity - A Guide for Social Scientists (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	February 2009
Editors:	Rawi Abdelal • Yoshiko M. Herrera (Associate Professor) • Alastair Iain Johnston • Rose McDermott
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	438
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-51818-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Research methods Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	0-521-51818-0
Barcode:	9780521518185

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