Society and Identity Toward a Sociological Psychology

This book examines sociological perspectives on identity in order to illuminate the perennial problem of defining the human person, and to pose an alternative definition of identity based on it being socially constructed. Beginning with a review of previous identity studies, the authors then analyse identity in two contexts: gender identity, linked to present bodies; and prenatal and postmortem identities, linked to future and past bodies.Weigert, Andrew J. is the author of 'Society and Identity Toward a Sociological Psychology', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521033343 and ISBN 0521033349.