Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research - 9780367404451

Taylor & Francis

Innovations and Challenges in Identity ResearchAuthor(s): David Block\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367404451, 978-0367404451\nSynopsis\nInnovations and Challenges in Identity Research examines established and emergent issues within identity research.\n\nThis innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendent approach, drawing on a range of social science, humanities and human science disciplines on the way to a detailed consideration of:\n\nthe history of identity as a construct \n\nthe components of a poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity\n\nthe prospect of a Marxist political economy approach to identity\n\nthe interrelationship between structure and agency and a model of structuring spheres\nan expanded version of positioning theory\n\nthe digital universe as the future of identity research.\n\nLeading researcher David Block provides a personal take on this key topic of study in appl.