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Making up People: On Some Looping Effects of the Human Kind - Institutional Reflexivity or Social Control?
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In this paper, an account of the co-construction of categorical identity and personal identity among human beings is presented, where people recognize themselves within a socially sanctioned categorical scheme, and hence institutional and personal reflexivity occur as a joint movement that, at the same time, can be seen as an exercise in social control.Abstract:
This paper is an account of the co-construction of categorical identity and personal identity among human beings. As people recognize themselves within a socially sanctioned categorical scheme, they reproduce that scheme, and hence institutional and personal reflexivity occur as a joint movement that, at the same time, can be seen as an exercise in social control. The inspirations for this account are lan Hacking's view about the distinctiveness of social kinds from natural kinds, and Dan Sperber's idea about cultural communication as a form of social epidemiology.read more
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
TL;DR: In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star as mentioned in this paper explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world and examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary.
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Identity as an analytic lens for research in education
TL;DR: In this article, a focus on the contextually specific ways in which people act out and recognize identities allows a more dynamic approach than the sometimes overly general and static trio of "race, class, and gender".
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Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual
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Ethnicity as Cognition
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TL;DR: The authors identify an incipient and largely implicit cognitive turn in the study of ethnicity, and argue that it can be consolidated and extended by drawing on cognitive research in social psychology and anthropology.
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Learning in massively multiplayer online games
TL;DR: This paper outlines an ongoing cognitive ethnography of a currently thriving MMOG, paying particular attention to the forms of socially and materially distributed cognition that emerge, the learning mechanisms embedded within community practice, and the ways in which participation shapes and is shaped by the situated (on-and off-screen) identities of its members.
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Melvin L. DeFleur,Erving Goffman +1 more
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between information control and personal identity, including the Discredited and the Discreditable Social Information Visibility Personal Identity Biography Biographical Others Passing Techniques of Information Control Covering.