Self, identity, and social institutions
By: Neil J. MacKinnon and David R. Heise
Contributors: Heise, David R.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780230621794
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Cultural theories of people; title: Identities in standard English; title: Language and social institutions; title: The cultural self; title: The self's identities; title: Theories of identities and selves; title: Theories of norms and institutions; title: Social reality and human subjectivity.