Becoming other : from social interaction to self-reflection

• Main Author: Gillespie, Alex, Ph. D. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2006]
• Series: Advances in cultural psychology.
• Subjects: Acculturation > India > Ladakh.; Ladakhi (South Asian people) > Psychology.; Tourists > India > Ladakh > Psychology.; Tourism > India > Ladakh > Psychological aspects.; Psychology > Social Psychology.; Cross-cultural, Intercultural studies and topics.; Social, group or collective psychology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918115703
• DOI: 10.1108/9781607527954
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations

The research reported in this book is unapologetically Meadian. While the work of George Herbert Mead has been of widespread significance, and his name is often cited, there are in fact few empirical studies that have sought to rigorously instantiate his ideas. This is in part because his theory is...

Table of Contents:

• The social act
• Elaborations and questions
• Tourism in Ladakh
• The touring act
• Listening to tourists
• Listening to Ladakhis
• First analysis : genealogy
• Tourist self and Ladakhi other
• Ladakhi self and tourist other
• Second analysis : becoming other
• Internal dialogues
• Self-reflection
• Becoming other to oneself.