Revisiting the Self: Social Science Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138953352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 134 str.

Charalambos Tsekeris

Opis

Who am I? Or, even more curiously, who are you? These are questions about the self – that aspect of who we are that we believe defines, or at least describes, each of us. In this innovative and thought-provoking book, the various social aspects of the self and its construction are imaginatively explored. The book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical and practical consequences of revisiting the self and identity. World-leading experts elaborate on the self and its construction as a key topic in contemporary social science. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science, and two articles from Self and Identity.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Contextualising the self in contemporary social science  2. Self-construction and multiples modernities  3. Selfhood and its pragmatic coherence in the context of social entropy: towards a new framework of the social self  4. The dilemma of ‘the capable actor’ and the case of disrupted lives  5. The self in family coexistence: developing youth’s agency and prosociality  6. Portraying the self in online contexts: context-driven and user-driven online identity profiles  7. ‘I have never cared for particular disciplines’ – negotiating an interdisciplinary self in biographical narrative  8. The Context-Sensitive Future Self: Possible Selves Motivate in Context, Not Otherwise  9. Who Am I? How Asking the Question Changes the Answer

O autorze

Charalambos Tsekeris is a Research Associate at the Research Centre for Greek Society of the Academy of Athens, Greece, and at the Anti-Corruption Centre for Education and Research of Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. He is also Senior Researcher at the Virtual Reality Laboratory of Panteion University, Athens, Greece, and Research Professor at Aegean College, Greece.