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This new, completely revised version builds on the popular success of the First Edition. It seeks to answer the basic social question of ‘who am I?’ by developing an understanding of self-identity as formed in social relations and social activity. Comprehensive, jargon-free and authoritative, it will be required reading on courses in self and society, identity, and personality formation.
Self in Contemporary Society
Self in Contemporary Society
One of the key themes to have emerged in social scientific writings over the last couple of decades is to do with the way that the self has changed in the midst of seismic transformations in society. It is argued that the nature of work has changed from long-term to short-term employment, and that geographical social mobility has increased because of the need to move around to find work – also because of the widening opportunities in education, employment, travel and migration – and that all of this has created a decline in generations living out their lives in the same communities, among familiar neighbours, extended family and life-long friends. The sociologist Anthony Giddens has pointed out that ...
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