Jan E. Stets is Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Social Psychology Research Laboratory at the University of California, Riverside. She is past Director of the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation, and past Co-Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly. Professor Stets is a sociological social psychologist who works in the areas of self and identity, emotions, morality, and social exchange. She is the author of a dozen books and over 80 papers. She is the recipient of NSF grants, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and a member of the Sociological Research Association. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASA Emotions Section. Richard T. Serpe is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Kent State University. He is past Co-Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly and Sociological Perspectives. Professor Serpe is a sociological social psychologist who has been working in identity theory for the past forty years. His recent research is designed to further contextualize identity processes in terms of differential placement within the social structure. He has conducted or directed over 270 research projects funded by several private foundations, public and private organizations, local, state, and federal agencies.
"The volume is based on scholarship presented at the second
biannual conference on identity theory and research...The majority
of chapters discuss specific studies, adopting the standard
academic research article format. Despite the format, the language
employed seems geared more toward general readers than academics.
Recommended."
*CHOICE*
This volume is an important collection of research and theory by
some of the most influential scholars currently working on the
question of identity. In breaking so much fertile ground, this
finely edited compendium promises to extend identity theory and
invite many new and innovative avenues of research.
*Peter Callero, Professor of Sociology, Western Oregon
University*
As today's climate of identity driven politics and social divisions
has highlighted for us, identity processes are central to the link
between a society's social structure and the behaviors and motives
of the individuals within it. Stets and Serpe's edited volume
offers us a valuable new look at how these linkages work out in
everyday contemporary life.
*Celia Rigdgeway, Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences,
Emerita, Stanford University*
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