The Conceptual Self in Context

• List of contributions; Part I. The Self in Culture: 1. Concepts and self-concepts Ulric Neisser; 2. Selfways: diversity in modes of cultural participation Hazel Rose Markus, Patricia R. Mullally, and Shinobu Kitayama; 3. Depression and the cultural context of the self-serving bias Linda J. Koenig; 4. How is the self conceptualized? Variations among cultures Fredrik Barth; 5. The internal structure of the self George Lakoff; 6. Why Lakoff needs psychoanalysis: on cultural ambivalence and concepts of the self Charles W. Nuckolls; 7. Children's self-awareness and self-understanding in cultural context Daniel Hart and Suzanne Fegley; 8. Situating the self in interpersonal space John F. Kihlstrom, Lori A. Marchese-Foster, and Stanley B. Klein; 9. The self as socially constructed: a commentary Robyn Fivush and Janine Buckner; Part II. Experiencing the Self: 10. Mindfulness mediation and the private (?) self Eleanor Rosch; 11. The consciousness machine: self and subjectivity in schizophrenia and modern culture Louis A. Sass; Part III. Philosophical Perspectives on the Self: 12. The self and contemporary theories of ethics Sheila Mason; 13. A 'self of selves'? David A. Jopling; Author index; Subject index.

"Neisser and Jopling's edited volume collects an intelligent, sophisticated, and interdisciplinary set of essays on the self written by a distinguished group of psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, and philosophers....there is much here of interest to sociologists of the self. The Conceptual Self in Context covers a lot of ground in its 13 thoughtful and well-written chapters. This book should be read by sociologists interested in the self." Viktor Gecas, Contemporary Sociology