Identity theory and personality theory: mutual relevance.
Some personality psychologists have found a structural symbolic interactionist frame and identity theory relevant to their work. This frame and theory, developed in sociology, are first reviewed. Emphasized in the review are a multiple identity conception of self, identities as internalized expectations derived from roles embedded in organized networks of social interaction, and a view of social structures as facilitators in bringing people into networks or constraints in keeping them out, subsequently, attention turns to a discussion of the mutual relevance of structural symbolic interactionism/identity theory and personality theory, looking to extensions of the current literature on these topics.
Stryker
Sheldon
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Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. stryker@indiana.edu
D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012107:Research Design; D012649:Self Concept; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012933:Social Identification; D013694:Temperament