| Abstrakt: |
"What is an activist? Do you consider yourself an activist?" This paper uses memoing and content analysis to analyze interviews with thirty-five movement participants from two organizations involved in LGBTQ issues. I draw upon sociological and social psychological theories of the "perfect standard" of activism, identity competition, boundary disruption, and "identity not" to explain three configurations of activist identity-Emphatics, Demarcators, and Reconcilers-as gleaned from analyses of their responses. I conclude the paper by suggesting why people involved in activism may be more likely to identify with one type of "activist" identity over another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
