There is a story behind every book. This book was born against the background of deep human issues which every society and every person must face. The responses we make in the face of these issues become the core of our own self-understanding. How do you make sense of your self emergence as a human self? Do you think of yourself as an immortal being made in the image of God? Do you think of yourself as a group of chemical elements produced by millions of years of evolutionary forces? Furthermore, do you think that you choose your own actions, or are you totally determined by forces outside of your control?.....What makes your life or my life unique and significant?

Social psychology: A sociological approach through interpretive understanding

Politics & Social Sciences

Weigert, Andrew J.

Social Sciences

University of Notre Dame Press

Society and Identity: Toward a Sociological Psychology (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)

Since the 1940s, there has been an explosion of writings, both scientific and nonscientific, about the question of 'identity' and what it means to be an individual in today's world. This book examines sociological perspectives on identity in order to illuminate the perennial problem of defining the human person, and to pose an alternative definition of identity based on it being socially constructed. Beginning with a review of previous studies of identity, the authors present a set of propositions for organizing the wide range of uses of the term, and for arriving at an adequate definition of it. Identity is then analysed in two contexts: gender identity, linked to present bodies; and prenatal and postmortem identities, linked to future and past bodies. Whereas gender identity reveals the powerful but breakable link between body type and identity, prenatal and postmortem identities illustrate the symbolic reality and partial independence of identity from any corporeal existence. This is an innovative and insightful study which will appeal to all those concerned with understanding the nature of human identity.

Cambridge University Press

Since the 1940s, there has been an explosion of writings, both scientific and nonscientific, about the question of 'identity' and what it means to be an individual in today's world. This book examines sociological perspectives on identity in order to illuminate the perennial problem of defining the human person, and to pose an alternative definition of identity based on it being socially constructed. Beginning with a review of previous studies of identity, the authors present a set of propositions for organizing the wide range of uses of the term, and for arriving at an adequate definition of it. Identity is then analysed in two contexts: gender identity, linked to present bodies; and prenatal and postmortem identities, linked to future and past bodies. Whereas gender identity reveals the powerful but breakable link between body type and identity, prenatal and postmortem identities illustrate the symbolic reality and partial independence of identity from any corporeal existence. This is an innovative and insightful study which will appeal to all those concerned with understanding the nature of human identity.

Teitge, J. Smith

Teitge, Dennis W.

Mixed Emotions: Certain Steps Toward Understanding Ambivalence (SUNY Series in the Sociology of Emotions)

Certain Steps Toward Understanding Ambivalence

Mixed Emotions: Certain Steps Toward Understanding Ambivalence (Suny the Sociology of Emotions)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

State University of New York Press

Provides a framework for sharing a more adequate view of human-environment relations and contributes to the development of an ecologically aware sense of self-understanding. Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment helps us as individuals to understand environmental issues and to respond accordingly. Although it acknowledges that such issues exist on a worldwide scale, it sharpens our focus on the personal level. For example, it shows that most people do not consider the pollution they cause by operating cars or fertilizing lawns. Throughout the text, the author links ideas to both social concerns and everyday activities, helping readers to comprehend political decisions that involve the environment, as well as making them more aware of their own role in that respect.

Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment: Refocusing Our Eyesight

State Univ of New York Pr

This groundbreaking book convincingly explains why a Learning Community Pedagogy (LCP) is a critical supplement to traditional teacher-student relationships. Based on a participatory democratic learning dynamic, LCP empowers both professor and student to discover themselves as present to one another, which generates freedom—an informing principle of the Learning Community. Through LCP, classroom participants are specifically liberated through dynamisms unleashed by the following four assumptions: (1) The world is in a state of profound crisis that requires critical thinking to inform decisions necessary for human survival in freedom and dignity; (2) Humans must place their primary faith in intellect as an evolutionary capacity that is potentially universal when liberated from the separate “pasts” of disparate groups; (3) Intellect is the primary path toward imagining and conceptualizing a future that all can see, collectively, as “Our Future”; (4) LCP focuses on empowering the young to describe their world to themselves and others, have faith in the intellectual possibilities of all humans, and reference their world to a sharable global future. A major thesis of the book, which is arranged in 32 concise “Meditations,” is that LCP fosters security and trust that both infuse student participation and professorial authority and enable “ego” to, paradoxically, be independent of and engaged with “issue” and others at the same time. Throughout his discussion, Dr. Weigert illustrates the many ways that LCP reverses standard practices and assumptions of traditional pedagogy, such as that “grades” are useful, that professors must be “expert” in some specialty, and that answers should be given to questions rather than that answers should invite questions, thus making contingent what was certain. These features make the LCP classroom experience an adventure, since no one—not even the professor— knows what will emerge or even “happen” in any given class! Andrew J. Weigert is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame.  He has a B.A. and Licentiate in Philosophy and an M.A. in Economics from St. Louis University, a B.Th. from Woodstock College, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota.  He joined the Faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 1968, and taught Sociology of Religion for one year at Yale Divinity School. He is author or co-author of over 80 articles and nine books in Sociology and Social Psychology, more recently concerned with identity and environment.  His teaching was recognized with a Sheedy Award from the College of Arts and Letters, 2002 (sole recipient), and Kaneb Awards for Undergraduate Teaching in 1999, 2002, and 2005 (multiple recipients). 

Pragmatic Meditations on Learning Community Pedagogy

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc.

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Social psychology: A sociological approach through interpretive understanding

Society and Identity: Toward a Sociological Psychology (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)

Society and Identity: Toward a Sociological Psychology (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)

Mixed Emotions: Certain Steps Toward Understanding Ambivalence (Suny the Sociology of Emotions)

Mixed Emotions: Certain Steps Toward Understanding Ambivalence (SUNY Series in the Sociology of Emotions)

Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment: Refocusing Our Eyesight

Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment: Refocusing Our Eyesight

Pragmatic Meditations on Learning Community Pedagogy