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The Development of a Postmodern Self - A Computer-Assisted Comparative Analysis of Personal Documents (Hardcover)
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The Development of a Postmodern Self - A Computer-Assisted Comparative Analysis of Personal Documents (Hardcover)
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Wood and Zurcher suggest that the social self--its experience and
organization--reflects the great transformation of society from
industrial to postindustrial. . . . Wood and Zurcher have
contributed to our social psychological understanding of
self-development in several ways. They pack information about
theories of modern self-hood into a well-researched and accessible
book. Readers will find a resource on theories of the postmodern
self here. The authors also introduce a creative use of
computerized content analysis, which they successfully demonstrate
by transforming personal documents into social scientific data.
Contemporary Sociology According to various observers, the
postmodern self represents changes in contemporary culture--from
rationality and unemotional performance to irrationality and
mysticism; from institutional standards and duty-to-society to
individual standards and duty-to-self; from structure and stability
to transience and experimentation. Through an analysis of diaries
from nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans, this study deals
with the nature of the postmodern self. It provides a framework for
understanding the ideas that collectively comprise postmodern self
theory and presents empirical data concerning its historical
validity. The book reflects the use of a computer approach in which
the statistical incidence of particular words is examined over
time.
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