Signs of Identity

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Overview of the book -- The core of the argument -- Our different assumptions -- Language as a model -- Essentialism and structuralism -- Values and ethnocentrism -- Interpellation -- Emotional attachment -- 1. The conceptions of collective identity -- The foundations of identity research -- Micro-level approaches -- Social Identity approach -- Optimal Distinctiveness theory -- Social Identity Complexity Theory -- Macro-level approaches -- Early macro-level approaches -- Recent macro-level approaches -- Two-level approaches -- Summary -- 2. The nature of social phenomena -- Communication -- The concept of sign -- Icon, index and symbol -- Social phenomena as symbols -- 3. Identity as sign -- Identity communication -- The structure of collective identity -- Identity language -- Social stratification -- 4. Identity signals -- Human diversity -- Types of signals -- Inherited features -- Entrenched features -- Elected features -- Categorization -- Gender and race -- Ethnicity and nation -- Boundary permeability -- 5. Identity meanings -- Core values -- Types of core values -- Stereotypes -- Ethnocentrism -- Meta values: unity -- Meta values: authenticity -- 6. Identification -- Personal identification -- The Self -- Disidentification -- Recognition -- Intersectionality -- Double identification -- 7. Identity negotiation -- Social construction -- Deconstruction -- Communication accommodation -- Grouping and contrasting -- The power of narrative -- The Bronze Soldier case -- 8. Hot and cold identities -- Collective emotions -- Fear versus security -- Hope versus despair -- Pride versus shame -- Anger versus guilt -- Identity fusion -- Cold groups -- Hot groups -- Conflicts in core values -- 9. Epilogue