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Developing selves are meaning‐making selves: Recouping the social in self‐development
Author(s) -
Miller Peggy J.,
Mangelsdorf Sarah C.
Publication year - 2005
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.137
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , meaning making , scholarship , mediation , psychology , semiotics , focus (optics) , sociology , social psychology , epistemology , social science , philosophy , physics , optics , political science , law , psychotherapist
In this chapter, we argue that deeper insight into the social nature of self‐development can be gained by adopting a dual focus on social relationships and meaning making. A key challenge for future scholarship will be to investigate the role of semiotic mediation in self‐construction during the early years of life.