Authors: Ian Burkitt
ISBN-13: 9780803983854, ISBN-10: 0803983859
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
'A valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on the social dimensions of selfhood. In addition to providing an extensive, well-researched overview of the wide variety of theories that have explored the social formation of personality and beyond - Burkitt seeks ultimately to formulate his own position on the matters at hand, one that is able to "move beyond dichotomous and dualistic visions of society and individuals.... Burkitt deserves praise for the clarity with which he presents his overview of the relevant theories, for the cogency with which he offers his own critiques of these theories, and for his commitment to thinking dialectically about the self....
Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Society and the Individual | 1 |
Pt. 1 | Personality as Social Discourse | |
2 | Language and the Social Self | 28 |
3 | The Self in Everyday Communication | 55 |
4 | Power, Knowledge and the Self | 83 |
Pt. 2 | Personality in Social Relations and Interdependencies | |
5 | Social Relations and Personality | 110 |
6 | Social Relations, Culture and the Self | 137 |
7 | Power Relations, Interdependencies and the Civilized Personality | 163 |
8 | Conclusion: The Formation and Reconstruction of Social Selves | 189 |
References | 217 | |
Index | 227 |