A Sense of Identity

Prolegomena to a Social Theory of Personal Identity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8975464
AutoresJohn D Greenwood (0000-0003-3122-5141, City College, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen24
Número1
Páginas25-46
Fecha de publicación1994-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-5914.1994.tb00245.x
OpenAlexW2010082986
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas17

A philosophical account of personal identity ‐ in terms of the maintenance of fundamental beliefs, principles and commitments by spatiotemporally continuous particulars ‐ is sketched, an account which is able to incorporate a social and relational conception of personal identity, and thus serve as the basis for a social psychological theory of personal identity ‐ in terms of the pursuit of identity projects’within social collectives. Some implications of this theory are developed, concerning the relation between identity and individualism, responsibility and social labeling. The theory develops an account of the social constitution of personal identity that is consistent with a realist conception of social psychological theories of identity: as objective theoretical descriptions of the social dimensions of identity

Aesthetics · Constitution · Epistemology · Identity (music · Identity formation · Personal identity · Political science · Self · Self-concept · Social group · Social identity approach · Social identity theory · Sociology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity