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Using Symbolic Interactionist theories and descriptions of the everyday life of self-defined 'shy' people, the book explores the social processes of becoming a 'shy person' and performing the shy self in public places. The question of interactional competence is discussed in relation to issues of identity, embodiment, performativity and deviance.
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Shortlisted for the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. For more information about the prize, see http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/PAM.htm
'This book is a 'should read' for anyone sociologically interested in the public performance of emotions, the self, and identity.' - Michael Atkinson, American Journal of Sociology
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SUSIE SCOTT is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. She has researched and published in the areas of interaction and everyday life, medical sociology, qualitative methodology and social theory.
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Book Title: Shyness and Society
Book Subtitle: The Illusion of Competence
Authors: Susie Scott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230801325
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9603-9Published: 10 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54501-8Published: 01 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-80132-5Published: 10 January 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 194
Topics: Social Theory, Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, Sociology, general