This study presents an examination of the intersection of figured worlds, identity construction, and perception of addiction and an addictive identity in female college students. It investigates whether female college students conceptualize college as a figured world as theorized by Holland, Lachicotte Jr., Skinner, and Cain (1998), and whether (and to what extent) this figured world affects their willingness to accept and/or ascribe the identity label of addict. Using sociolinguistic interviews, students were asked to describe aspects of, and their opinions on, college life in general, drinking and/or drug use in college, and finally how these opinions interacted for them with widely held definitions of addict and addiction. Students responses were analyzed according to Bucholtz & Halls (1998) tactics of intersubjectivity to define the parameters of their identity formation, and how such formation is occurring within, and therefore likely influenced by, the figured world of college.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PITT/oai:PITTETD:etd-04192010-100718 |
| Date | 01 June 2010 |
| Creators | Newcomb, Katie Marie |
| Contributors | Scott F. Kiesling, PhD, Emily McEwan-Fujita, PhD, Claude E. Mauk, PhD |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh |
| Source Sets | University of Pittsburgh |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-04192010-100718/ |
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