Revisiting the sociology of identities and selves with discursive resources

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ID12912924
AuthorsMatthew J Cousineau (0000-0002-3610-5803, Auburn University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume11
Issue12
Publication date2017-10-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soc4.12541
OpenAlexW2765647504
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited53

In recent years, a growing body of multidisciplinary research has used the concept of the discursive resource. Discursive psychologists, communications scholars, and sociologists have all used this concept. Discursive resources are clusters of categories supplied by culture that present explanations for past and future activities, provide individual and collective identities for self‐construction, and enable and constrain texts. In this essay, I describe how this research contributes to sociological theorizing of identity, and make some recommendations for researchers who wish to use these concepts or improve these concepts. Studies using the concept of the discursive resource contribute to sociological theorizing of identity by showing how discursive resources are related to important features of social life such as future talk; collective identities; space and time; and complex and political divisions of labor, culture, and postmodernity. I then conclude by suggesting that future research analyze the social distribution of discursive resources across different kinds of social environments

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Politics · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Resource (disambiguation · Social science · Sociological research · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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