Measuring identity : a guide for social scientists / edited by Rawi Abdelal ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-408) and index.

Identity as a variable / Rawi Abdelal ... [and others] -- Conceptualizing and measuring ethnic identity / Henry E. Brady and Cynthia S. Kaplan -- Trade-offs in measuring identities : a comparison of five approaches / Donald A. Sylvan and Amanda K. Metskas -- Between social theory and social science practice : toward a new approach to the survey measurement of "race" / Taeku Lee -- Balancing national and ethnic identities : the psychology of E pluribus unum / Jack Citrin and David O. Sears -- Black and blue : Black identity and Black solidarity in an era of conservative triumph / Michael Dawson -- Quantitative content analysis and the measurement of collective identity / Kimberly A. Neuendorf and Paul D. Skalski -- The content and intersection of identity in Iraq / Robalyn Stone and Michael Young -- A constructivist dataset on ethnicity and institutions / Kanchan Chandra -- Identity relations and the Sino-Soviet split / Ted Hopf -- Techniques for measureing identity in ethnographic research / Laura L. Adams -- Psychological approaches to identity : experimentation and application / Rose McDermott.

The concept of identity has become increasingly prominent in the social sciences and humanities. Analysis of the development of social identities is an important focus of scholarly research, and scholars using social identities as the building blocks of social, political, and economic life have attempted to account for a number of discrete outcomes by treating identities as causal factors. The dominant implication of the vast literature on identity is that social identities are among the most important social facts of the world in which we live. Abdelal, Herrera, Johnston, and McDermott have brought together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to consider the conceptual and methodological challenges associated with treating identity as a variable, offer a synthetic theoretical framework, and demonstrate the possibilities offered by various methods of measurement. The book represents a collection of empirically-grounded theoretical discussions of a range of methodological techniques for the study of identities.