Self and Identity

Students are familiar with key theories, concepts and research methods regarding the self and identity. Students are able to examine the ways in which people experience themselves in different public and social situations and the ways in which the self and identity inform action, experiences and well-being. Students are able to employ the concepts of the self and identity in order to analyse and interpret the social world.

Three of the following books:

1. Baumeister, Roy (ed.) (1999) The Self in Social Pychology . Psychology Press.

2. Brewer, Marilyn B. (2004) Self and Social Identity . Blackwell.

3. Brown, Rupert and Dora Capozza (eds.) (2006) Social Identities: motivational, emotional and cultural influences. Psychology Press.

4. Côté, James E. (2018) Youth Development in Identity Societies . London: Routledge.

5. Gergen, Kenneth (2009) Relational Being. Beyond Self and Community . Oxford University Press.

6. Giddens, Anthony (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age . Polity Press.

7. Grogan, Sarah (2016). Body image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women and children . London: Routledge

8. Jenkins, Richard (2014). Social identity . London: Routledge

9. Kroger, Jane (2006). Identity development: Adolescence through adulthood . London: Sage.

10. Leary, Mark L. (2007) The Curse of the Self . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

11. Martin, Jack & Sugarman, Jeff & Hickinbottom, Sarah (eds.) (2010) Persons. Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency . Springer.

12. McAdams, Dan (1997) The Stories We Live By: personal myths and the making of the self . Guilford.

13. Postmes, Tom & Branscombe, Nyla (eds.) (2010) Rediscovering Social Identity . Psychology Press.