About this book
Introduction
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.
Keywords
identity Institution
Bibliographic information
- Book Title Self, Identity, and Social Institutions
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Authors
D. Heise
N. MacKinnon
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230108493
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
- eBook Packages Palgrave Social Sciences Collection Social Sciences (R0)
- Hardcover ISBN 978-0-230-62179-4
- Softcover ISBN 978-1-349-38354-2
- eBook ISBN 978-0-230-10849-3
- Edition Number 1
- Number of Pages XII, 264
- Number of Illustrations 0 b/w illustrations, 0 illustrations in colour
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Topics
Social Structure, Social Inequality
Sociology of Culture
Sociology, general
Regional and Cultural Studies
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Reviews
"This is the most comprehensive treatment of self and identity I have seen in a very long time. The clear, incisive, and evenhanded exposition by two master theoreticians and researchers should be in every social psychologist's library - students and seasoned professionals alike." - Timothy J. Owens, Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University, USA
"This book is a broad, powerful statement of a new cybernetic theory of self and identity. It builds on earlier theoretical work in affect control theory, but is a distinct contribution at a different (higher) level of analysis. It also includes a cultural theory of people that operates at a more cognitive level, and proposes a new methodology for locating and describing institutions. This is a major new work." - Lynn Smith-Lovin, Robert L. Wilson Professor of Sociology, Duke University, USA