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Role Transitions, Objects, and Identity

Silver, Ira·1996·Symbolic Interaction
DOI 10.1525/si.1996.19.1.1
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Abstract

Most research on role transitions, following a tradition pioneered by van Gennep, regards these major turning points in the life course primarily as times when people move between different sets of social networks. While these studies acknowledge that rites of passage occur within particular physical spaces in which material objects are present, the importance of such objects has received little attention. I explore one particular role transition—moving away to college—and illustrate that objects play a central role in how students construct their identities. Students at “Midwestern” University make strategic choices about which objects to leave at home as anchors of prior identities and which ones to bring to school as markers of new identities. Moreover, I suggest that the meanings of these two categories of objects differ by gender. I argue that this case opens up the possibility that objects play a much more central part in role transitions than social scientists have acknowledged. This study also challenges existing assumptions about different processes of identity formation. Therefore, it engenders the need for additional research about how people reinterpret objects during role transitions, and about the different meanings that objects may have for the constructions of masculinity and femininity.

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Authors
Silver, I.
Venue
Symbolic Interaction
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1996-03
Volume
19
Issue
1
Pages
1-20
ISSN
  • 0195-6086
  • 1533-8665
DOI
10.1525/si.1996.19.1.1
Cited by
49
References
76
Language
en
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 5774 d)

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