Metaphors of Identity - A Culture-Communication Dialogue

Placing identity within its cultural context, Fitzgerald offers ethnographic case material to examine the meaning and changing metaphors of ethnicity, male and female identity, and aging and identity. He opens up an exciting multidisciplinary dialogue for improving interpersonal and cross-cultural communication. The book provides a clear synthesis of the interrelated meanings of culture, identity, and communication, examining self-concept and its role in the communication process, and exploring cultural and biological research on self, individuality, personality, and mind-body questions.

About the author

Thomas K. Fitzgerald is Professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is co-author of Culture, Society and Guidance; and author of Education and Identity and Aspirations and Identity Among Second-Generation Cook Islanders in New Zealand.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas K Fitzgerald, Thomas K. Fitzgerald
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.1993
• EAN: 9780791415962
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1596-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 459 g
• Series: Suny Series in the Sociology o; Suny Series, Human Communicati
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)