ISBN:
9780415688864
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (223 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding the Self and Others
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Social interaction
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National characteristics
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Social groups
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National characteristics
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Social groups
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Social interaction
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world's most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp contradiction, in perspectives between nations and cultural groups. To find potential solutions to these seemingly intractable divides, we must come to understand what both facilitates and hinders a meaningful exchange of fundamental ideas and beliefs between different cultural groups.The discussio
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Understanding the Self and Others; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; 1 Understanding self and others: explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity; PART I Conceptual foundations; 2 What lies between?; 3 From inter-subjectivity, via inter-objectivity, to intra-objectivity: from a determinate world of separate things to an indeterminate world of inseparable flowing processes; 4 Interobjectivity as a border: the fluid dynamics of "betweenness"; 5 Things that help make us what we are
Description / Table of Contents:
PART II Interpersonal processes and social cognition6 Intersubjectivity and the Geschwister Effekt: how siblings shape infant development; 7 Characterizing selves and others: a personalistic perspective; 8 Logical time, symbolic identification, and the trans-subjective; 9 Others as objects: the possibilities and limitations of intersubjective relationships; PART III Social and cultural processes; 10 Cultural identity clarity: its role in intergroup perception, dehumanization, and intergroup attribution; 11 Interobjective social values; 12 In the desert with Lawrence of Arabia
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Social influence by artefact: norms and objects as conflict zonesAfterword; Index
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