Social and Personal Identity : Understanding Yourself Hardback
by Derek Layder
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How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book provides a reliable guide to these questions. The book:· Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around basic needs for security and self-esteem and the personaldesires that flow from them· Shows the role of the emotions in personal life· Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existenceof 'individuals' and 'personal experience'· Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems anddilemmas of life to shape our moods, attitudes and feelings. Shrewd and compelling, the book will be of interest to anyone studying Social Psychology and Sociology.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:24/02/2004
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- ISBN:9780761944881
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:24/02/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780761944881