Group Identity Fabrication Theory: A Communication-Ecological Account with Social-Theoretical Implications - Paperback

by Robin Kurilla (Author)

To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the construction of group identities. The present study fills this gap by developing a unified theoretical foundation that can be used to capture empirical construction processes. Moreover, it contributes to the domain of group communication research. It creates a basic theoretical riverbed that provides a conceptual foundation for the conception of inter- and intra-group communication, which does not take its starting point from 'objective' categories, but from de facto socialization processes. In addition, the architecture of an innovative social theory is presented using the example of the construction of group identity, which satisfies the demands of epistemological interests in communication studies and possibly also in other disciplines.

Back Jacket

To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the fabrication of group identities. This book fills this gap by developing a unified theoretical basis with which to capture empirical fabrication processes. Moreover, it contributes to the domain of group communication research. A basic theoretical riverbed provides a conceptual foundation for the description and explanation of intra- and intergroup communication, starting not with 'objective' categories, but with empirical processes of sociation. In addition, the example of group identity fabrication serves to present the architecture of an innovative social theory that meets the demands of communication studies and some of its neighboring disciplines.

The content

Communication ecology.- Group and identity.- Environments of identity fabrication.- Collective identity.- Group communication.

The target groups

Lecturers and students of communication studies and neighboring disciplines.

The author

PD Dr. Robin Kurilla is a DAAD funded associate professor at the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences of the Turkish-German University in Istanbul and affiliated to the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Author Biography

PD Dr. Robin Kurilla is a member of the academic staff at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.