Tag: Socialization

  • The Ancient Agonies of the Unelected OverLords

    They didn’t have a choice, those infant twins abandoned into the river Tiber. We can only imagine what their Mother went through. What feelings would have washed the womb of the infants, when the Royal Mother knew that her babies would be murdered at birth by her uncle? The Palace servants were ordered to drown […]

  • Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves Part II

    Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves Part II

    Summary of Part I In Part I of my article, we began by distinguishing the social self from two forms of identity that are often confused with it: temperament and personality. The focus of part one is to show how very social (or even socialist) was the work of social psychologist George Herbert Mead. We […]

  • Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves, Part I

    Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves, Part I

    Medieval alchemist working in his laboratory Orientation Preliminary social psychology questions and answers People’s identity can be made sense of as existing in the cross-fire between our biological, psychological and social lives. This helps us to understand the differences between someone’s temperament, personality and self. Among social psychologists such as George Herbert Mead, the species […]

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