Identity construction among boundary-crossing individuals |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Commissariat à l''Énergie Atomique (CEA, LIST), 8 Avenue de la Vauve, 91120 Palaiseau, France;2. Facultée des Sciences et Techniques (ICMPA-UNESCO Chair), Université d''Abomey-Calavi, 072 BP 50, Benin;1. Department of Oncology, Cancer Center of Southeastern Ontario at Kingston General Hospital, Queen''s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;2. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;3. Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Queen''s University Cancer Research Institute, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;1. N.N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia;2. Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Ivanovo, Russia;3. Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | In this article we describe a study of boundary-crossing individuals (individuals who change organisation frequently) and the way they construct identities through interaction and self-reflexion. It is argued from a social constructionist perspective that studies of the way individual identities are constructed are important to our understanding of the complexity of the identity phenomenon. Identities cannot simply be reduced to certain stable institutionalised aspects such as profession or gender. Rather life should be seen as an ongoing process of identity construction, whereby reflexion upon life episodes and the pattern of such episodes shape identities. The results suggest different patterns of articulations through narratives. These narratives are associated with different underlying ontological discourses that describe diverse ways of reasoning among boundary-crossing individuals. |
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