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The Development of a Postmodern Self: A Computer-Assisted Comparative Analysis of Personal Documents (Contributions in Sociology) - Hardcover

Wood, Michael; Zurcher, Louis

 
9780313254581: The Development of a Postmodern Self: A Computer-Assisted Comparative Analysis of Personal Documents (Contributions in Sociology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0313254583 ISBN 13: 9780313254581
Verlag: Praeger, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Wood and Zurcher suggest that the social self--its experience and organization--reflects the great transformation of society from industrial to postindustrial. . . . Wood and Zurcher have contributed to our social psychological understanding of self-development in several ways. They pack information about theories of modern self-hood into a well-researched and accessible book. Readers will find a resource on theories of the postmodern self here. The authors also introduce a creative use of computerized content analysis, which they successfully demonstrate by transforming personal documents into social scientific data.
Contemporary Sociology

According to various observers, the postmodern self represents changes in contemporary culture--from rationality and unemotional performance to irrationality and mysticism; from institutional standards and duty-to-society to individual standards and duty-to-self; from structure and stability to transience and experimentation. Through an analysis of diaries from nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans, this study deals with the nature of the postmodern self. It provides a framework for understanding the ideas that collectively comprise postmodern self theory and presents empirical data concerning its historical validity. The book reflects the use of a computer approach in which the statistical incidence of particular words is examined over time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

MICHAEL R. WOOD is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he also serves as an instructor in the Graduate Program in Social Research.

LOUIS A. ZURCHER JR. was Ashbel Smith Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Verlag
Praeger
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0313254583
ISBN 13 
9780313254581
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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