Understanding the Self and Others : Explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity.

Understanding the Self and Others : Explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity.

How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world's most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp cont...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sammut, Gordon
Other Authors: Daanen, Paul, Moghaddam, Fathali M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Subjects:
Social interaction.
National characteristics.
Social groups.
National characteristics
Social groups
Social interaction
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Understanding the Self and Others; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; 1 Understanding self and others: explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity; PART I Conceptual foundations; 2 What lies between?; 3 From inter-subjectivity, via inter-objectivity, to intra-objectivity: from a determinate world of separate things to an indeterminate world of inseparable flowing processes; 4 Interobjectivity as a border: the fluid dynamics of "betweenness"; 5 Things that help make us what we are.
  • PART II Interpersonal processes and social cognition6 Intersubjectivity and the Geschwister Effekt: how siblings shape infant development; 7 Characterizing selves and others: a personalistic perspective; 8 Logical time, symbolic identification, and the trans-subjective; 9 Others as objects: the possibilities and limitations of intersubjective relationships; PART III Social and cultural processes; 10 Cultural identity clarity: its role in intergroup perception, dehumanization, and intergroup attribution; 11 Interobjective social values; 12 In the desert with Lawrence of Arabia.
  • 13 Social influence by artefact: norms and objects as conflict zonesAfterword; Index.

Similar Items