Scott, Susie, Negotiating Identity: Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Social Identity.

Abstract

Scott unpacks the role of language as a tool in identity performance, illustrates collaborative performances through the management of public nudity, explains self-presentation and impression management techniques when receiving exam results and the process of role-exit facilitated by others in the interaction order. In Chapter 5, Casting Members: Teamwork, collusion and dramaturgical loyalty, Rossing and Scott (2014) found collective "facesaving" techniques were employed when a team of competent professionals were grouped into an aerobics program for beginners as part of a sponsored work wellness program.