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The Existential Self in Society

By: Joseph A. Kotarba (Editor), Andrea Fontana (Editor)

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Paperback | 28 July 1987 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Phenomenology & Existentialism Psychology Social Psychology The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality Sociology & Anthropology

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
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