Identity Theory: Revised and Expanded

The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology.Introduced more than fifty years ago, identity theory is a social psychological theory that attempts to understand person's identities, their sources in interaction and society, their processes of operation, and their consequences for interaction and society from a sociological perspective.In this fully updated second edition of Identity Theory, Peter J.Burke and Jan E. Stets expand and refine their discussion of identity theory.Each chapter has been significantly revised and chapters have been added to address new theoretical developments and empirical research in the field.They cover identity characteristics, the processes and outcomes of identity verification, and the operation of identities to detail in particular the role of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive processes.In addition, Burke and Stets ex