Social and personal identity : understanding yourself / Derek Layder.
How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? In this accessible and illuminating book Derek Layder attempts to provide a reliable guide to these complicated questions and: Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around basic needs...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Thousand Oaks, CA :
Sage Publications,
2004.
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| Summary: | How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? In this accessible and illuminating book Derek Layder attempts to provide a reliable guide to these complicated questions and: 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 ìndividuals' and p̀ersonal experience'. Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems and dilemmas of life to sh. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848606036 1848606036 0761944893 9780761944898 9781446215845 1446215849 1280538694 9781280538698 9786610538690 6610538697 0761944885 9780761944881 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |