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Getting away from it all
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Getting away from it all
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constructing identity on vacation
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Stein
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Karen L.
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1979-
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Karen Stein
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Richard Williams
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Cerulo
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Karen Cerulo
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Christena Nippert-Eng
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2012
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This study examines the cognitive work individuals do in managing and negotiating identity while on vacation. Vacations represent a distinct opportunity for identity work as existing they are re-negotiated for a finite period of time. While away from select demands of everyday life existing identities are rearranged; some move to the foreground, others shift to the back, while still others are dismissed entirely. The temporary nature of the experience and its voluntary nature make such identity work possible, permissible, and often heartily anticipated. In doing so, some identities are easily paused, while others prove to be more enduring. Vacationers employ a variety of methods in response, in order to cognitively bound this time off and instrumentally manage connections to everyday life. To investigate such cognitive processes, this study draws on data from mixed qualitative methods gathered from three specific examples of vacation types, as well as a narrative analysis of a broad pool of vacation blogs. I identify two distinct forms of vacationing that have emerged from socio-cultural perspectives on leisure in the West: those who vacation for personal enrichment and self-improvement, and those who use their time off for rest and relaxation. Interviews and participant observation were used to gather data from volunteer tourists in China for the former group, and resort vacationers in Hawaii for the latter. While most vacations involve travel of some kind, not all individuals have the financial or temporal resources to go away and instead vacation at home. Interviews with such “staycationers” comprise the third group for this study. This analysis examines how individuals draw and negotiate cognitive boundaries around existing identities by analyzing issues of temporality, space and place, interactions with others, activities, and physical objects. I find that certain identities can be put “on hold,” while others gain prominence, or are even created for the short-term. In doing so this study contributes to an understanding of the means by which people use culture to construct and negotiate their set of identities. While vacationing activities may differ, cognitive methods of shaping and bounding identities transcend location and content.
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Sociology
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vi, 223 p.
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Ph.D.
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by Karen L. Stein
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Identity (Psychology)
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Vacations--Social aspects
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ETD doctoral
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Karen
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2012-08-23 15:46:29
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2013-10-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 31st, 2013.
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