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9780195098266

Self and Identity Fundamental Issues

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    9780195098266

  • ISBN10:

    0195098269

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-05-15
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This first volume in the Rutgers Series on Self and Social Identity, presents new and contrasting perspectives on fundamental issues in the scientific study of self and identity. Topics include the personal versus social nature of the self and identity, multiplicity of selves versus unity of identity, and the societal, cultural, and historical formation and expression of selves.

Table of Contents

Contributors xiii
1 INTRODUCTION: Toward a Second Century of the Scientific Analysis of Self and Identity
3(20)
Richard D. Ashmore
Lee Jussim
PART I / Classic Contrasts: Multiplicity of Self Versus Unity of Identity 23(58)
2 Multiplicity of Selves
23(23)
Seymour Rosenberg
3 The Case for Unity in the (Post)Modern Self: A Modest Proposal
46(35)
Dan P. McAdams
PART II / Classic Contrasts: Personal Self Versus Social Identity 81(56)
4 The Personal Self in Social Context: Barriers to Authenticity
81(25)
Susan Harter
5 Me's and We's: Forms and Functions of Social Identities
106(31)
Peggy A. Thoits
Lauren K. Virshup
PART III / Critical Contexts 137(94)
6 The Historical Formation of Selves
137(23)
Kurt Danziger
7 Selves as Cultured: As Told by an Anthropologist Who Lacks a Soul
160(31)
Dorothy Holland
8 The Self and Society: Changes, Problems, and Opportunities
191(27)
Roy F. Baumeister
9 CONCLUSION: Fundamental Issues in the Study of Self and Identity--Contrasts, Contexts, and Conflicts
218(13)
Lee Jussim
Richard D. Ashmore
Author Index 231(3)
Subject Index 234

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