1st Edition

Revisiting the Self Social Science Perspectives

Edited By Charalambos Tsekeris Copyright 2016
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

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. The self is not merely an internal creation, however. Family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances all contribute to who we are, and more importantly, they help to shape who we think we are. In this innovative and... Read more

Foreword David Canter

1. Contextualising the self in contemporary social science Charalambos Tsekeris

2. Self-construction and multiples modernities Vulca Fidolini

3. Selfhood and its pragmatic coherence in the context of social entropy: towards a new framework of the social self Jeff Vass

4. The dilemma of ‘the capable actor’ and the case of disrupted lives Kaisa Ketokivi and Mianna Meskus

5. The self in family coexistence: developing youth’s agency and prosociality Melissa Lopez Reyes and Katrina F. Resurreccion

6. Portraying the self in online contexts: context-driven and user-driven online identity profiles Mónica Aresta, Luis Pedro, Carlos Santos and António Moreira

7. ‘I have never cared for particular disciplines’ – negotiating an interdisciplinary self in biographical narrative Carlos Adrian Cuevas-Garcia

8. The Context-Sensitive Future Self: Possible Selves Motivate in Context, Not Otherwise Dapha Oyserman, Mesmin Destin, and Sheida Novin

9. Who Am I? How Asking the Question Changes the Answer Jean Guerrettaz and Robert M. Arkin

Biography

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.