Being the Change: Resolving Institutional Contradiction through Identity Work
研究美国主流新教教会的同性恋、双性恋和跨性别牧师如何通过身份工作解决其角色与边缘化身份之间的制度矛盾，提出边缘行动者推动制度变革的微观过程模型。
We show how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) ministers in two mainline Protestant denominations in the United States experience and address a salient institutional contradiction between their role in the church and their marginalized GLBT identities. Drawing on this analysis, we offer a theoretical model of the microprocesses through which marginalized actors who are committed to the institution in which they are embedded can begin to think and act as agents of institutional change. This model enunciates the importance of embodied identity work in resolving the experience of institutional contradiction and marginalization.