Negotiating Identity

Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Social Identity

Susie Scott














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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Jonathan Skerrett at Polity for his conscientious support for and helpful advice with this book, from proposal through to publication. I am also grateful to the three anonymous reviewers who provided extremely positive and encouraging feedback on the first draft of the manuscript.

Earlier versions of some of the writing in Chapters 7 and 8 appeared in my book Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities (Palgrave, 2011)and article ‘Intimate deception in everyday life’ (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 39, 251–79), so I appreciate the publishers’ permission to reproduce this material. I am also grateful to my students Sarah Hamilton and Sophie Bishop for allowing me to cite examples from their excellent research projects.

Thank you to my Sussex colleagues, family and friends who have been kind and encouraging throughout the writing process: particularly Hilde, Karin, Dagmara and Vuokko (the Nordic contingent) and James, Liz, Karl and Lucy.