Self, Identity, and Social Institutions

✍ Scribed by Neil J. MacKinnon, David R. Heise (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Cultural Theories of People....Pages 19-47
Identities in Standard English....Pages 49-72
Language and Social Institutions....Pages 73-93
The Cultural Self....Pages 95-129
The Self’s Identities....Pages 131-161
Theories of Identities and Selves....Pages 163-197
Theories of Norms and Institutions....Pages 199-218
Social Reality and Human Subjectivity....Pages 219-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-266

✦ Subjects

Social Structure, Social Inequality; Sociology of Culture; Sociology, general; Regional and Cultural Studies

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