ISBN:
9780415083232
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0415083230
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9780415083249
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0415083249
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9780203418987
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0203418980
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 217 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Self consciousness
DDC:
302.54
Keywords:
Personality and culture Cross-cultural studies
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Self Cross-cultural studies
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Identity (Philosophical concept) Cross-cultural studies
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Group identity Cross-cultural studies
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Identity (Psychology) Cross-cultural studies
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Personality and culture Cross-cultural studies
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Self Cross-cultural studies
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Group identity Cross-cultural studies
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Group identity Cross-cultural studies
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Personality and culture Cross-cultural studies
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Self Cross-cultural studies
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Identity (Philosophical concept) Cross-cultural studies
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Social Science
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Personality and culture
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Group identity
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
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Self
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Cross-cultural studies
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Cross-cultural studies
Abstract:
Traditionally the self and the individual have been treated as micro-versions of larger social entities by the social sciences in general, and by anthropology in particular. In Self Consciousness, Cohen examines this treatment of the self, arguing that this practice has resulted in the misunderstanding of social aggregates precisely because the individual has been ignored as a constituent element. By acknowledging the individual's self awareness as author of their own social conduct and of the social forms in which they participate, this informs social and cultural processes rather th
Description / Table of Contents:
1. The neglected self : anthropological traditions2. The creative self -- 3. Initiating the self into society -- 4. Social transformations of the self -- 5. The primacy of the self? -- 6. The thinking self -- 7. Individualism, individuality, selfhood.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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