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Mirrors and Masks : The Search for Identity by Anselm L. Strauss; with a new introduction by the author is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity. It is connected with appraisals made by oneself and by others. Each person sees himself mirrored in the judgments of others. The masks he presents to the world are fashioned upon his anticipations of judgments. In Mirrors and Masks, Anselm Strauss uses the notion of identity to organize materials and thoughts about certain aspects of problems traditionally intriguing to social psychologists.The problems Strauss considers to be intriguing traditionally are those encountered when studying group membership, motivation, personality development, and social interaction. The topics covered include: the basic importance of language for human action and identity; the perpetual indeterminacy of identities in constantly changing social contexts; the symbolic and developmental character of human interaction; the theme of identity as it affects adult behaviqr; relations between generations and their role in personality development; and the symbolic character of membership in groups.By focusing on symbolic behavior with an emphasis on social organization, Strauss presents a fruitful, systematic perspective from

Who reads Mirrors and Masks : The Search for Identity?

Author

Anselm L. Strauss; with a new introduction by the author

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351505130

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences