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The coactive construction of selves in cultures
Author(s) -
Mascolo Michael F.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.105
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , sociology , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy
Selves and cultures are not independent entities. Focusing on the processes by which individuals and cultures participate in each other's functioning, we can begin to understand how personal and communal dimensions of selfhood must be represented in some form in all the world's cultures.