X-Message-Number: 6114
From:  (David Stodolsky)
Subject: The social self
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 12:10:14 +0100

"The implication is that the self is always social insofar as it is
defined in terms of relations to others, but that these relations may
be differently conceptualised ("I" vs. "you" for personal identity;
"we" vs. "they" for social identity). As a consequence, it is impossible
to conceive of a self that is prior to the social. It is not simply
wrong to give priority to some asocial core of selfhood, but that defining
one's position only makes sense in a social space. The self must therefore
be social in the sense of its content: it is always bound up in a
representation of social relations.(p. 280)"

Reicher, S. (1995). Three dimensions of the social self. 
In A. Oosterwegel & R. A. Wicklund (eds.),
The self in European and North American culture: 
Developments and processes, pp. 277-290.
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Pub.
(ISBN 0-7923-3672-0)


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