Social Symptoms of Identity Needs : Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems and What to Do About It
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| Title: | Social Symptoms of Identity Needs : Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems and What to Do About It |
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| Description: | Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural phenomena that force identity to defend and maintain itself by socially harmful means. |
| Authors: | Mark Bracher |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Social problems--United States |
| Categories: | PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural phenomena that force identity to defend and maintain itself by socially harmful means. |
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| ISBN: | 9781855756540 9780367327019 9781849408073 9781780493121 9780429905100 9780429919336 9780429480331 |
