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Edley, Nigel and Wetherell, Margaret
(1997).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926597008002004
Abstract
In this paper we examine the construction of masculine identities within a real-life social situation. Using data from an extensive series of interviews with small groups of sixth-form (17-18-year-old) students attending a UK-based, single-sex independent school, the analysis looks at the action orientation of different constructions of identity. More specifically, it focuses upon how the identity talk of one particular group of students were oriented towards managing their subordinate status within the school. In a number of instances the identity of the `new man' was adopted as a strategy of resistance. However, it was found that the more common strategy involved buying back into values embodied within a more traditional definition of masculinity.
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- Item ORO ID
- 24354
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1460-3624
- Keywords
- crisis; discourse analysis; ideology; identity; masculinity; power; social constructionism
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling > Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling
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- © 1997 Sage publications
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- Margaret Wetherell