The Co-authored Self

Family Stories and the Construction of Personal Identity

Kate C. McLean (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2015
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-999574-5 (ISBN)

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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 ecology. She argues that family stories play a powerful role in defining identities, for better or for worse; it is through these family stories that the self takes on its earliest and most lasting form. Situating the process of identity development in adolescence and emerging adulthood, she shows through quantitative and qualitative data-with compelling narrative excerpts throughout-the ways in which families both support and constrain identity development by the stories they tell.

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.

Chapter One: Building the Narrative Ecology ; Section 1 Setting the Stage ; Chapter Two. Developmental Considerations ; Chapter Three. Theoretical Approaches to Identity Development and the Power of Narrative ; Section 2 Master Narratives and Personal Narratives: The Stories our Families Tell About Us ; Chapter Four. Two Storied Paths to Identity Integration ; Chapter Five. Resisting Stories ; Section 3 Broadening the Narrative Ecology: Another Story, An Other's Story ; Chapter Six. Parents are People: Parent's Identities ; Chapter Seven. Parents' stories: Children's Identities ; Section 4 Broader Contexts of Storytelling: Gender and Peers ; Chapter Eight. The Gendered Socialization of Narrative and Identity ; Chapter Nine. Peers and Family Stories ; Section 5 Conclusion ; Chapter Ten: The End of the Story, for now ; Appendix: Methodological Issues ; References ; About the Author ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.12.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	239 x 155 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-19-999574-5 / 0199995745
ISBN-13	978-0-19-999574-5 / 9780199995745
Zustand	Neuware