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Mirrors and Masks : The Search for Identity by Anselm L. Strauss (1997, Trade Paperback)
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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. He opens up new areas of thought and associates matters that are not ordinarily considered to be related.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-101560009357
ISBN-139781560009351
eBay Product ID (ePID)525448
Product Key Features
Number of Pages196 Pages
Publication NameMirrors and Masks : the Search for Identity
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, Personality, Social Psychology
Publication Year1997
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorAnselm L. Strauss
Subject AreaPsychology
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN96-038934
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal137
Table Of ContentIntroduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface, I. Language and Identity, II. Self-Appraisals and the Course of Action, III. Interaction, IV. Transformations of Identity, V. Change and Continuity, VI. Membership and History, VII. A Concluding Note, Notes
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisIdentity 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 which to view traditional problems of social psychology. He opens up new areas of thought and associates matters that are not ordinarily considered to be related. Strauss believes that psychiatrists* and psychologists underestimate immensely the influence of social organization upon individual behavior and individual structure, and that sociologists, whose major concern is with social organization, should employ some kind of social psychology in their research. Mirrors and Masks shows that the fusion of theoretical approaches benefits the analyses of many scholars. This fascinating work should be read by sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
LC Classification NumberBF697.S85 1997
