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Social and Personal Identity - Understanding Your Self by Professor Derek Layder is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Social and Personal Identity - Understanding Your Self about?
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 personal desires that flow from them · Shows the role of the emotions in personal life · Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existence of 'individuals' and 'personal experience' · Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems and dilemmas 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.
Who reads Social and Personal Identity - Understanding Your Self?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Professor Derek Layder
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781446215845
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Sociology, Medical
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