The Self and Others: Positioning Individuals and Groups in Personal, Political, and Cultural Contexts [Hardcover]

This volume focuses on relations between the self and other individuals, the self and groups, and the self and context. Leading scholars in the field of positioning theory present the newest developments from this field on human social relations. The discussion is international, multidisciplinary, and multi-method, aiming to achieve a more dynamic and powerful account of human social relations, and to break disciplinary boundaries.

Four features in this work are prominent. The book is culturally oriented and international. There is a push to move across disciplines, particularly across psychology and linguistics, and psychology and microsociology. There is a focus on language and social construction of the world through discourse. Finally, the book represents a multi-method approach that reflects discursive methods.

ROM HARR? has been a longtime University Lecturer on the Philosophy of Science at Oxford University. He is also a Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and has been visiting professor at universities around the world. He has authored or co-authored nearly 60 books.

FATHALI MOGHADDAM is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. He has also taught at McGill University and the National University of Iran, and has been a National Officer for a United Nations Development Program.

Introduction by Rom Harr? and Fathali M. Moghaddam
The Self and Other Individuals
Motivational Styles and Positioning Theory by Michael J. Apter
Positioning and the Emotions by W. Gerrod Parrott
There You Are Man : Men's Use of Emotion Discourses and Their Negotiation of Emotional Subject Positions by Chris Walton, Adrian Coyle, and Evanthia Lyons
The Unthinkable, the Unspeakable Self: Reflections on the Importance of Negative Emotional Boundaries for the Formation, Maintenance and Transformation of Identities by Ciar?n Benson
Malignant Positioning and the Predicament of People with Alzheimer's Disease by Steven R. lSì