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Self, Identity, and Social Institutions

Self, Identity, and Social Institutions

Description

This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society's culture, and reveals how the individual actualizes and sustains an integrated and stable self while navigating the sometimes treacherous waters of everyday institutional life.

Keywords

Social ScienceSociologySociology of ReligionPolitical ScienceAnthropologyCultural & Social

2010Book

Author(s)Neil Joseph MacKinnon

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US

ISBN9780230621794

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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