Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, Effectiveness, and Consequences of Narrative Identity Work in Macro Work Role Transitions
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...While the idea of social interactionism is not new to the identity literature (Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934), the identity literature is only beginning to explain when social interaction is more or less important for identity construction (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010)....
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...…capture features or attributes that individuals associate with themselves (Markus, 1977), or they might be represented in a narrative form (McAdams, 1993), as individuals story who they are in interaction with others (Gergen & Gergen, 1988) and over time (Carlsen, 2008; Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010)....
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...Each perspective on positive identity—virtue, evaluative, developmental, and structural—highlights a different source of positivity and opens new avenues for theorizing about identity construction....
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...…implications for phenomena driven by narrative identities, ranging from personality consistency (Crescentini & Capurso, 2015) and identity work (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010) to sense-making (Weick, 1995), intergroup relations (Ashforth & Mael, 1989), and organizational identification processes…...
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...…the support of the community, which, in turn, helps newcomers feel a greater sense of belonging within the community (Holland et al., 2001; Lave & Wenger, 1991).7 Identities claimed successfully across a range of social interactions become more sa lient and central; identities premised on…...
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...…including canonical elements of plot, such as "hitting bottom," while newcom ers to Codependents Anonymous adopt refer ences to dysfunctional families as a constant fixture of their life stories (Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, & Cain, 2001; Irvine, 2000; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Snow & Machalek, 1984)....
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...Scholars concur that self-narratives are both expressive of and constitutive of identity (Bruner, 1990; Ger genf 1994; Josselsonf 2004; Lave & Wenger, 1991; McAdams, 1996; Pentland# 1999)....
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...…get ting a second interview or job offer, being in vited to important events, or being revealed sen sitive information (Bartel & Dutton, 2001; Lave & Wenger, 1991; O'Mahony & Bechky, 2006)?may be immediately and objectively discernible, de crypting others might take time or depend on the…...
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...…to sustain feelings of authenticity, despite the changes a person is experiencing (Ibarra, 2003), and to fashion a "culturally appropriate self," complete with stories deemed appropriate by a new professional group or community (Kunda, 1992; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Sutton, 1991; Van Maanen, 1998)....
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...Since people rely on others' reactions to confirm their self views (Down & Reveley, 2009; Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934), achieving agreement on the moral lends weight to the identity claimed in that in teraction....
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...There is shared agreement that identities are multiple, mutable, and socially constructed (Baumeister, 1998; Cooley, 1902; Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934) but coexist within a self that integrates diverse experiences into a unity (Baumeister, 1998; Ge cas, 1982; Markus & Wurf, 1987).2 Identity work has…...
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...Narrative episodes, like all social interactions, are evaluated relative to the motives that engendered them (Goffman, 1959; Leary, 1996)....
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...Effectiveness of Narrative Identity Work Narrative episodes, like all social interac tions, are evaluated relative to the motives that engendered them (Goffman, 1959; Leary, 1996)....
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...Since people rely on others’ reactions to confirm their selfviews (Down & Reveley, 2009; Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934), achieving agreement on the moral lends weight to the identity claimed in that interaction....
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...Repeated storytelling helps speakers identify their own preferences and learn competing interpretations, unfamiliar views, and others’ stories (Polletta & Lee, 2006; Weick, 1995)....
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...…Potter, 1992), and indirectly, through their partic ipation in a range of cultural activities, such as reading fiction and biography and watching films or the news (Swidler, 1986), as well as via their sensemaking efforts in the wake of signif icant events (Ebaugh, 1988; Louis, 1980b; Weick, 1995)....
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...…2018 04:35:55 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 2010 Ibarra and Barbulescu 149 the bones" of the frequently cited enactment perspective?that isf the idea that "people learn their identities by projecting them into an en vironment and observing the consequences" (Weick, 1995: 23)....
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...Repeated storytelling helps speakers identify their own preferences and learn competing interpretations, unfamiliar views, and others' stories (Polletta & Lee, 2006; Weick, 1995)....
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...Accounts, narratives, and other rhetorical strategies form an impor tant part of this arsenal for identity work (Ash forth, 2001; Scott & Lyman, 1968; Van Maanen, 1998; Weick, 1995)....
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...Our model proposes feedback loops or double interacts (Weick, 1979) between narrative identity work episodes and repertoire processes over time, as unsuccessful episodes lead people...
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...Our model proposes feedback loops or double interacts (Weick, 1979) between narrative identity work episodes and repertoire processes over time, as unsuccessful episodes lead people 6Our notion of narrative repertoire is akin to Swidler's (1986: 273) idea of a "toolkit" of "habits, skills and…...
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