Social and Personal Identity
Derek Layder · 2004
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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 |individuals' and |personal experience'. Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems and dilemmas of life to sh.
Book details
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 174
- ISBN
- 9781848606036
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