Title: Understanding the self and others : explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity /
Authors: Sammut, Gordon; Daanen, Paul.; Moghaddam, Fathali M.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Social interaction.; National characteristics.; Social groups; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
Abstract: "How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question couldn't be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humanity today. At the heart of most of our world's most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence in perspectives between nations and/or cultural groups. For example, how should we characterize the seemingly intractable divide between Indians and Pakistanis? What lies at the heart of the constant misunderstanding between Israelis and Palestinians? How has the political divide in the United States taken on such polemic divisions? How are we to make sense of the baffling resistance certain groups of people in many nations have to the overwhelming evidence of global climate change? In essence, the divergences in all of these perspectives are related to fundamentally different ways in which groups value their existence and construct a meaningful picture of who they are in relation to others. By drawing on multidisciplinary approaches to social psychological phenomena illustrated in these examples, this book draws together a number of cutting edge researchers and practitioners in psychology and related fields. The discussions in this book both review some of the most significant debates concerning how different groups come to share meanings, and radically advance this discussion in impactful new directions. "--
Contents: Understanding Self and Others: Explorations in Intersubjectivity and Interobjectivity / Gordon Sammut, Paul Daanen, and Fathali M. Moghaddam. Part I: Conceptual foundations. What Lies Between? / Rom Harré and Gordon Sammut ; From Inter-subjectivity, via Inter-objectivity, to Intra-objectivity: From a Determinate World of Separate Things to An Indeterminate World of Inseparable Flowing Processes / John Shotter ; Interobjectivity as a Border: The Fluid Dynamics of "Betweenness" / Giuseppina Marsico, Kenneth R. Cabell, Jaan Valsiner and Nikita A. Kharlamov ; Things That Help Make Us What We Are / Alan Costall. -- Part II: Interpersonal processes and social cognition. Intersubjectivity and the Geschwister Effekt: How Siblings Shape Infant Development / Rachel Barr ; Characterizing Selves and Others: A Personalistic Perspective / James T. Lamiell ; Logical Time, Symbolic Identification, and the Trans-subjective / Derek Hook ; Others as Objects: The Possibilities and Limitations of Intersubjective Relationships / Paul Daanen and Sabrina Young. -- Part III: Social and cultural processes. Cultural Identity Clarity: Its Role in Intergroup Perception, Dehumanization and Intergroup Attribution / Donald M. Taylor, Regine Debrosse, Megan Cooper and Frank Kachanoff ; Interobjective Social Values / Gordon Sammut, Stavroula Tsirogianni and Fathali M. Moghaddam ; In the Desert with Lawrence of Arabia / Robert Schmidle ; Social Influence by Artefact: Norms and Objects as Conflict Zones / Martin W. Bauer. -- Afterword / Gordon Sammut, Paul Daanen and Fathali M. Moghaddam.