This authoritative textbook introduces a broad range of theoretical perspectives that treat the self as a central concern of social psychology.

Introduction - Richard Stevens
Making Sense of the Person in a Social World
The Embodied Self - Frederick Toates
A Biological Perspective
The Interpreting Self - Mansur Lalljee
An Experimentalist Perspective
The Reflexive Self - Richard Stevens
An Experiential Perspective
The Distributed Self - Margaret Wetherell and Janet Maybin
A Social Constructionist Perspective
The Defensive Self - Kerry Thomas
A Psychodynamic Perspective
The Self in the Modern World - Richard Stevens and Margaret Wetherell
Drawing Together the Threads