Scott, S., McDonnell, L. and Dawson, M. (2016) Stories of non-becoming: non-issues, non-events and non-identities in asexual lives. Symbolic Interaction, 39(2), pp. 268-286. (doi: 10.1002/SYMB.215)
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Abstract
In contrast to conventional models of positively ‘becoming’ an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of ‘non-becoming’, whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, key interactions and encounters at each stage influence non-progression to the next. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-awareness, communicative negation and non-consolidation, each involving interactional contingencies. With a wider applicability to other repudiated identities, this model shows how even negational symbolic social objects (non-issues, non-events and non-identities) are constituted through social interaction.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Additional Information: | This article draws on findings from a project funded by The Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2012-575), held at the University of Sussex. |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Dawson, Professor Matt |
Authors: | Scott, S., McDonnell, L., and Dawson, M. |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
Journal Name: | Symbolic Interaction |
Publisher: | Wiley |
ISSN: | 1533-8665 |
ISSN (Online): | 1533-8665 |
Published Online: | 22 February 2016 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2016 Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction |
First Published: | First published in Symbolic Interaction 39(2):268-286 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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