Abstract
This chapter approaches issues related to socialization in childhood and adolescence, appreciating the critical role played by institutional settings—mainly, family and school—concerning the constitution of a healthy self-system along lifespan , capable of sustaining a sense of unity and integration albeit dealing with the tension between continuity and discontinuity in the irreversible time .
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A brief search in the most important journals publishing cultural psychology studies, Culture & Psychology, Theory & Psychology, International Journal of Idiographic Science, and Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, one finds the following terms: “person”, “subject”, “subjectivity”, “identity” “agent”, “actor”, “author”, “I/Me/My”, “self”, “selfhood”, “self-system”, “dialogical self”, and “selfing”.
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For a broader elaboration on Dialogical Self Theory, see Freire (this volume).
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Those are archetypes traditionally linked to Umbanda, a religion that mixes some African religious symbols with some principles of Kardecism and other Brazilian catholic traditions (according to Birman, 2005). “Exu-Caveira” e “Pombagira” correspond to the male and female versions of the same spirit, who are in different stages of evolution in relation to the transit between incarnate and spiritual life.
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Lopes-de-Oliveira, M.C., Toledo, D.C., Araújo, C.M. (2018). Continuity and Discontinuities in the Self-System: A Values-Based Idiographic Analysis of Gender Positionings. In: Branco, A., Lopes-de-Oliveira, M. (eds) Alterity, Values, and Socialization. Cultural Psychology of Education, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70506-4_10
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