|
Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice
|
Buy Now
The Co-authored Self - Family Stories and the Construction of Personal Identity (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,284
Discovery Miles 22 840
|
|
|
The Co-authored Self - Family Stories and the Construction of Personal Identity (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Questions about identity are perennially intriguing, and vexing, to
scholars and non-scholars alike. How do we know who we are? How do
we define ourselves? How much are we the agents of our own
identities, and how much are we defined by others? In The
Co-authored Self, Kate McLean addresses the question of how an
individual comes to develop an identity by focusing on the process
of interpersonal storytelling, particularly through the stories
people hear, co-tell, and share of and with their families. McLean
details how identity development is a collaborative construction
between the individual and his or her narrative ecology. She argues
that family stories play a powerful role in defining identities,
for better or for worse; it is through these family stories that
the self takes on its earliest and most lasting form. Situating the
process of identity development in adolescence and emerging
adulthood, she shows through quantitative and qualitative data-with
compelling narrative excerpts throughout-the ways in which families
both support and constrain identity development by the stories they
tell.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
