Structural Precursors to Identity Processes: The Role of Proximate Social Structures

Social Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-172

  Merolla, David M ^a   Serpe, Richard T ^b   Stryker, Sheldon ^c   Schultz, P Wesley ^d  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

education; identity theory; social self; social structure; symbolic interactionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868667231     PISSN: 01902725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0190272511436352     Document Type: Article

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