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Stories of Non-Becoming: Non-Issues, Non-Events and Non-Identities in Asexual Lives.
- Source :
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Symbolic Interaction . May2016, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p268-286. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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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, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01956086
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Symbolic Interaction
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 115132507
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.215