The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted in such a useful way, and in such an assured and accessible text. This completely reworked second ed
Social Selves: Theories of Self and Society
β Scribed by Dr Ian Burkitt
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 217
- Edition
- 2nd
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This new, completely revised version builds on the popular success of the First Edition. It seeks to answer the basic social question of βwho am I?β by developing an understanding of self-identity as formed in social relations and social activity. Comprehensive, jargon-free and authoritative, it will be required reading on courses in self and society, identity, and personality formation.
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