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Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Edited by
Norman K. Denzin
Norman K. Denzin
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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28
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-2396(2005)28
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978-1-84950-332-7
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978-0-76231-186-6
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0163-2396
Publication date:
2005
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THE STRANGENESS OF BEING

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Andrea Fontana;
Andrea Fontana
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Troy A. McGinnis
Troy A. McGinnis
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Andrea Fontana
Troy A. McGinnis
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2005
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-2396(04)28018-8
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    2005
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2005

Georg Simmel described how a person can be a stranger, a member of two cultures but belong to neither (1950). Being a stranger though, goes beyond belonging. Strangeness goes to the soul of who we truly are: it defines our beliefs, delimits our practices, and gives depth to our everyday lives. Strangeness allows and sometimes forces us to cross the borders from the safe confines of our normal lives into the murkiness of the unknown social reality beyond it.

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