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How is self-understanding established? Where do your views, Personal and cial Identity
attitudes and e from and why do they change? This
illuminating book provides a lively guide to these questions: Social and
• demonstrating that personal identity is formed around basic needs
for security and self-esteem and the personal desires that flow from
them; Personal
• illustrating the role of the emotions in personal life;
• exploring the limits of approaches that deny the existence of
‘individuals’ and ‘personal experience’, and;
• revealing how we build on everyday problems and dilemmas of life Identity
to shape our moods, attitudes and feelings.
Shrewd pelling, the book will be of interest to anyone
studying Social Psychology and Sociology. Understanding YourSelf
‘Understanding our personal identity or self is a central concern for all of DEREK LAYDER
us living in the contemporary age, and Derek Layder has written an
excellent introduction to this topic from a social scientific perspective. The
book is lucid, engaging, and understandable, developing a unique theory
of the self while introducing the ideas of the key thinkers who have
informed it. As one of the few accessible texts on the self, this will be
required reading for all students in the social and psychological sciences.
Moreover, it also attempts to deal with existential and spiritual questions
and should reach out to a general readership who want the tools to better
understand themselves.’ Ian Burkitt, Reader in Social Science,
University of Bradford
Derek Layder was Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester.
He is the author of many books, most notably Understanding Social
Theory, Modern Social Theory and Sociological Practice
Cover Image: ‘Double Portrait 2000 - 2003’ by Howard Hodgkin ISBN 0-7619-4489-3
Photographed by Prudence Cummings
Courtesy of the Gagosian Gallery
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