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Product Description: Wood and Zurcher suggest that the social self--its experience and organization--reflects the great transformation of society from industrial to postindustrial. . . . Wood and Zurcher have contributed to our social psychological understanding of self-development in several ways...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of original articles addresses current policy issues for manning the U.S. Naval Reserve. The expert contributors represent several social science disciplines and approach their subject from a variety of perspectives...read more

Product Description: Twelve field studies of specific social roles are used to show particular aspects of role enactment. The author uses the symbolic interaction perspective, along with sociological and social psychological theory to illustrate how people assimilate roles, enact the expected behaviour, or deal with unacceptable roles...read more

`This book will be widely read. One of the most useful aspects is Zurcher's comprehensive survey of theories of human development and social change. He cites a formidable array of sources and it is valuable to have his summaries of many of them assembled in one place.' -- Teachers College Record, Vol 83 No 2, Winter 1981