TY  - CHAP
AB  - In this essay I examine a variety of approaches to the contemporary postmodern self. I argue that this diverse literature may be analytically distinguished along two general lines. The first concerns institutional or structural claims regarding what a self “is” or “is not.” The second focuses instead on what a self “does” or “does not do.” I conclude by recommending a more comprehensive approach that takes into account the salience of both of these analytical dimensions in the contemporary debates over the postmodern self.
VL  - 30
SN  - 978-1-84663-931-9, 978-1-84663-930-2/0163-2396
DO  - 10.1016/S0163-2396(08)30011-8
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-2396(08)30011-8
AU  - Dickens David R.
ED  - Norman K. Denzin
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Dimensions of the postmodern self
T2  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
T3  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 183
EP  - 196
Y2  - 2024/05/09
ER  -