Self, Identity, and Social Institutions

✍ Scribed by David R. Heise, Neil J. MacKinnon

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society’s culture, and reveals how the individual actualizes and sustains an integrated and stable self while navigating the sometimes treacherous waters of everyday institutional life. MacKinnon and Heise identify a cultural theory of people that is implicit in the semantics of identity-nouns and outline how that theory functions in everyday life and the development of the self; the book identifies major social institutions through network analysis of identity semantics, and it develops a cybernetic model of self-process wherein individuals re-confirm their self-sentiments after participating in disconfirming institutional roles, balancing one inauthenticity with another.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
One: Introduction......Page 14
Two: Cultural Theories of People......Page 32
Three: Identities in Standard English......Page 62
Four: Language and Social Institutions......Page 86
Five: The Cultural Self......Page 108
Six: The Self’s Identities......Page 144
Seven: Theories of Identities and Selves......Page 176
Eight: Theories of Norms and Institutions......Page 212
Nine: Social Reality and Human Subjectivity......Page 232
Notes......Page 248
References......Page 254
D......Page 266
L......Page 267
R......Page 268
W......Page 269
C......Page 270
I......Page 271
R......Page 276
S......Page 277
W......Page 279