Social and Personal Identity

Derek Layder

How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? In this accessible and illuminating book Derek Layder attempts to provide a reliable guide to these complicated questions and: Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around basic needs for security and self-esteem and the personal desires that flow from them. Shows the role of the emotions in personal life. Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existence of |individuals' and |personal experience'. Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems and dilemmas of life to sh.