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The Co-authored Self: Family Stories and the Construction of Personal Identity
Kate C. McLean
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Description for The Co-authored Self: Family Stories and the Construction of Personal Identity
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: VSP; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
Questions about identity are perennially intriguing, and vexing, to scholars and non-scholars alike. How do we know who we are? How do we define ourselves? How much are we the agents of our own identities, and how much are we defined by others? In The Co-authored Self, Kate McLean addresses the question of how an individual comes to develop an identity by focusing on the process of interpersonal storytelling, particularly through the stories people hear, co-tell, and share of and with their families. McLean details how identity development is a collaborative construction between the individual and his or her narrative ... Read more
Questions about identity are perennially intriguing, and vexing, to scholars and non-scholars alike. How do we know who we are? How do we define ourselves? How much are we the agents of our own identities, and how much are we defined by others? In The Co-authored Self, Kate McLean addresses the question of how an individual comes to develop an identity by focusing on the process of interpersonal storytelling, particularly through the stories people hear, co-tell, and share of and with their families. McLean details how identity development is a collaborative construction between the individual and his or her narrative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199995745
SKU
V9780199995745
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Ref
99-15
About Kate C. McLean
Kate C. McLean, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University. Her research centers on the development of narrative identity in adolescence and emerging adulthood, particularly as it develops in social contexts, and as it relates to individual differences in personality and adjustment.
Reviews for The Co-authored Self: Family Stories and the Construction of Personal Identity
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. McLean does a masterful job of framing the manner in which the storied self is socially constructed, using the family unit as a case in point example of this larger process.
Dr. William Dunlop, Assistant Professor of Social/Personality Psychology at the University of California, PsychCRITIQUES
Dr. William Dunlop, Assistant Professor of Social/Personality Psychology at the University of California, PsychCRITIQUES