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9780761944881

Social and Personal Identity : Understanding Yourself

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761944881

  • ISBN10:

    0761944885

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-03-27
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

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Summary

How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book provides a reliable guide to these questions. The book:· Demonstrates that personal identity is formed aroundbasic needs for security and self-esteem and the personaldesires that flow from them· Shows the role of the emotions in personal life· Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existenceof 'individuals' and 'personal experience'· Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems anddilemmas of life to shape our moods, attitudes and feelings.Shrewd and compelling, the book will be of interest to anyone studying Social Psychology and Sociology.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(6)
1 Understanding Yourself 7(22)
2 Emotional Needs and Desires 29(17)
3 Your Controlling Heart 46(12)
4 Desire, Influence and Control 58(11)
5 Inner Power and the Higher Self 69(18)
6 Relationships and their Dilemmas 87(23)
7 Personal Worlds and Private Feelings 110(18)
8 The Self as Emergent Narrative 128(29)
Afterword 157(4)
References 161(2)
Index 163

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