Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Regrounding Theory: The Social Relations of Identity and Difference -- 2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Transformations in Identity Formation -- 3 On the Transition from Modernity to Postmodernity: Transformations in Culture -- 4 Explaining the Destabilization of Identity: Postmodernization, Commodification, and the Leveling of Cultural Hierarchy -- 5 Identity, Politics, and the Dual Logic of Postmodernity: Fragmentation and Pluralization -- 6 Redeeming the Subject: Poststructuralism, Meadian Social Pragmatism, and the Turn to Intersubjectivity -- Conclusion: Postmodernity and Its Theoretical Consequences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.