"As in her earlier study of governance change in seven Catholic colleges, one of Gallin's primary concerns is to demonstrate the complexity of the task, which rules out any simple...
The book reveals how social selves change over the life course through stigma, labelling and deviant careers, and how life in a total institution can radically transform its members' identities.
... identity. In his structural branch ... running as a 'serious leisure identity' (Stebbins 1992). The American adults they interviewed explained how, despite initial discomfort and fatigue, they had come to love running and give it new meanings ...
Negotiating Identity addresses the missiological problem of why the Hakka Chinese Christian community in Taiwan is so small despite evangelistic efforts there for more than 140 years.
Negotiating Identity: Rhetoric, Metaphor, and Social Drama in Northern Ireland