Contextual identity experiencing facilitates resilience in Native American academics

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2017.12.001" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2017.12.001</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2017.12.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.soscij.2017.12.001</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Contextual identity experiencing facilitates resilience in Native American academics
Original language description
This article discusses the socio-cultural dynamics that interact with ethno-racial identity experiencing in a previously under-researched group. A qualitative interdisciplinary study with 40 Native American academics from 28 mainstream universities across the U.S. served as a case example with findings that contrasted with historically influential theoretical frameworks postulating identity confusion and conflicts at the intersection of one's mainstream education and profession versus one's ethno-racial community grounding. Instead of feeling pressure to identify with only one worldview, the contextual, dynamic identities associated with the inclusive and flexible self-concept of tribal participants allowed them to in turn take advantage of two divergent cultural meaning systems pertaining to their distinct socio-cultural contexts. These shifts were experienced as not endogenous but rather exogenous variables, which did not cause the historically theorized issues. Participants felt their tribal identities instead facilitated meaningful integration of the existing incongruences, which resulted in unexpectedly resilient subjective experiencing.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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