Steve Watson

Many works refocus attention from the individual to the collective; others prioritize discourse over the systematic scrutiny of behavior; some researchers approach identity as a source of mobilization rather than a product of it; and the analysis of virtual identities now competes with research on identities established in the copresent world. This essay explores all such agenda. 

Theorizing Identity, Nationality and Citizenship: Implication for European Citizenship Identity by Lynn Jamieson,

This paper reviews theoretical approaches to the key concepts of ‘identity’ and ‘citizenship’ exploring their implications for the possibility of ‘European’ identity and ‘European’ citizenship.

Types of Groups in Openstax collection ‘Introduction to Sociology’

Summary:

• Understand primary and secondary groups as the two sociological groups
• Recognize in-groups and out-groups as subtypes of primary and secondary groups
• Define reference groups

Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory by Jan E. Stets, Peter Burke. Social Psychology Quarterly 2000, Vol 63, No. 3, 224-237

In social psychology, we  need to establish a general theory of the self, which can attend to both macro and micro processes, and which avoids the redundancies of separate theories on different aspects of the self.

Sociology: How are Identities Formed?

A mind map

Class Identities and the Identity of Class by Wendy Bottero, Sociology, 2004; 38; 985

The uneasy relationship between older and newer aspects of ‘class’ within renewed class theory means the wider implications of inequality considered as individualized hierarchy (rather than as ‘class’) have not been fully explored.The debate on class identities (an important example of this new form of class analysis) illustrates these dif?culties.

A Sociological Approach to Self and Identity by Jan E. Stets, Peter J. Burke; Chapter for Handbook of Self and Identity, edited by Mark Leary and June Tangney, Guilford Press

Because the self emerges in and is reflective of society, the sociological approach to understanding the self and its parts (identities) means that we must also understand the society in which the self is acting, and keep in mind that the self is always acting in a social context in which other selves exist (Stryker, 1980). 

Introducing Identity by David Buckingham; Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. Edited by David Buckingham. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 1–24. doi:10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.001 

There are some diverse assumptions about what identity is, and about its relevance to our understanding of young people’s engagements with digital media.