Object or Person

The Difference Lies In the Constructed Identity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12644285
AutoresPaul Phillips (0000-0003-4998-0938, Phillips University, autor correspondente), Paul A Phillips, Norm Kelk (The University of Sydney), Maureen H Fitzgerald (0000-0003-4113-9343)
Ano2007
Volume14
Fascículo3
Páginas162-171
Data de publicação2007-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Occupational Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1442-7591 • E-ISSN: 2158-1576
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14427591.2007.9686597
OpenAlexW1969262937
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas32

The article examines the fundamental theory behind being a person rather than an object. Taking Rubin's (1988) and Jackson's (1998a) rejection of role theory as an intermediary between actor and action, the authors propose agency and its acknowledgement as an alternative. In support of their argument they draw on Plato, Foucault and Descartes, as well as data gathered using an ethnographic approach in a village in Scotland. They conclude that constructed identity, which develops from a person's agency and others’ acknowledgments of that agency, has greater explanatory power than the theories of role, occupational role, identity, occupational identity, and distributed self

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