Review
Review of Social Selves: Theories of the Social Formation of Personality
Contemporary psychology, Vol.38(4), pp.429-429
04/01/1993
DOI: 10.1037/033266
Abstract
Reviews the book, Social Selves: Theories of the Social Formation of Personality by Ian Burkitt (see record 1992-97304-000). This relatively short book attempts to examine the view that individuals are independent of the society in which they exist, and instead it takes the view that the social self is constructed through discourse and social relations. This is an excellent book. It deals with complex material in a clear and readable manner, laying out the rationales behind many different theories with great clarity and precision. Although it challenges many assumptions of traditional social psychology, it is a masterpiece of scholarly analysis and a book that should be read by anyone interested in either personality or social behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Review of Social Selves: Theories of the Social Formation of Personality
- Creators
- Steve Duck
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Contemporary psychology, Vol.38(4), pp.429-429
- DOI
- 10.1037/033266
- ISSN
- 0010-7549
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/1993
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984398540002771
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