The Conceptual Self in Context: Culture Experience Self Understanding: 7 (Emory Symposia in Cognition, Series Number 7)
Cambridge University Press, 8/13/1997
EAN 9780521482035, ISBN10: 0521482038
Hardcover, 296 pages, 23.6 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
What is the self-concept and how does it develop? Do people in different cultures have sharply different concepts of self? Can we believe what our informants tell us on this point? What is known about the self-concepts of depressives? of schizophrenics? How does meditation affect the sense of self? Is there an inner 'self of selves' as James once suggested? These are, of course, hotly debated questions in the social sciences. In this book a prestigious group of psychologists, linguists, anthropologists and philosophers addresses these questions and presents some surprising answers. This is the third and last of the Emory Symposia organized around Ulric Neisser's cognitive theory of self-knowledge, it goes beyond The Perceived Self and The Remembering Self to deal with psychological and philosophical questions surrounding the self.
List of contributions
Part I. The Self in Culture
1. Concepts and self-concepts Ulric Neisser
2. Selfways
diversity in modes of cultural participation Hazel Rose Markus, Patricia R. Mullally, and Shinobu Kitayama
3. Depression and the cultural context of the self-serving bias Linda J. Koenig
4. How is the self conceptualized? Variations among cultures Fredrik Barth
5. The internal structure of the self George Lakoff
6. Why Lakoff needs psychoanalysis
on cultural ambivalence and concepts of the self Charles W. Nuckolls
7. Children's self-awareness and self-understanding in cultural context Daniel Hart and Suzanne Fegley
8. Situating the self in interpersonal space John F. Kihlstrom, Lori A. Marchese-Foster, and Stanley B. Klein
9. The self as socially constructed
a commentary Robyn Fivush and Janine Buckner
Part II. Experiencing the Self
10. Mindfulness mediation and the private (?) self Eleanor Rosch
11. The consciousness machine
self and subjectivity in schizophrenia and modern culture Louis A. Sass
Part III. Philosophical Perspectives on the Self
12. The self and contemporary theories of ethics Sheila Mason
13. A 'self of selves'? David A. Jopling
Author index
Subject index.