Existential Self in Society

Name: Existential Self in Society
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ISBN: 9780226451411

ISBN-10: 0226451410

ISBN-13: 9780226451411

Edition: 1984

Authors: Joseph A. Kotarba, Andrea. Fontana, Stanford M. Lyman

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The Existential Self in Society explores the ways in which we experience and shape our individuality in a rapidly changing social world. Kotarba and Fontana have gathered eleven original essays that form an exciting contribution and an ideal introduction to the emerging field of existential sociology.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/28/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Existential Sociology and the Self Andrea Fontana



Self: Sociological Portraits




The Emergence, Security, and Growth of the Sense of Self




An Existential View of Organizations: Is the Member Condemned to Be Free?




The Victimized Self: The Case of Battered Women




Blood and Money: Exploiting the Embodied Self




Leaving the Convent: The Experience of Role Exit and Self-Transformation Helen Rose




The Media Self




The Homosexual Self and the Organization of Experience: The Case of Kate White




Creating the Competent Self: The Case of the Wheelchair Runner




A Synthesis: The Existential Self in Society



List of Contributors


Index