TY - JOUR
T1 - I'm a Reddie and a Christian! Identity negotiations amongst first-year university students
AU - Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
AU - Brown, Rebecca
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Currently, there exists relatively scant sociological research on the identities of first‐year UK university students, and specifically those holding a strong Christian identity. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework, this article explores issues of identity construction amongst a group of first‐year undergraduate students based at a UK university, who self‐identify as committed Christians. Based on a qualitative, exploratory study of the transition experiences of first‐year students living on campus, the authors examine students’ accounts of identity, transition, negotiation and confirmation. After an initial period of anxiety and uncertainty vis‐à‐vis establishing new identities, participants recounted themes of commitment to Christian identity, and considered that they had been accepted and integrated into the ‘jock’ campus subculture despite transgressing certain of its values and norms, primarily those ‘commanding’ heavy drinking.
AB - Currently, there exists relatively scant sociological research on the identities of first‐year UK university students, and specifically those holding a strong Christian identity. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework, this article explores issues of identity construction amongst a group of first‐year undergraduate students based at a UK university, who self‐identify as committed Christians. Based on a qualitative, exploratory study of the transition experiences of first‐year students living on campus, the authors examine students’ accounts of identity, transition, negotiation and confirmation. After an initial period of anxiety and uncertainty vis‐à‐vis establishing new identities, participants recounted themes of commitment to Christian identity, and considered that they had been accepted and integrated into the ‘jock’ campus subculture despite transgressing certain of its values and norms, primarily those ‘commanding’ heavy drinking.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2010.527327
U2 - 10.1080/03075079.2010.527327
DO - 10.1080/03075079.2010.527327
M3 - Article
SN - 0307-5079
VL - 37
SP - 497
EP - 511
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
IS - 4
ER -