PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Anthony Giddens, Narration, Verisimilitude

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Part 3 becoming an author chapter 8 the stories we live by (to print?) To convey what william james described as the stream of human consciousness. Many scholars believe that rise of the novel parallels and reflects changes in how modern human beings have come to think of themselves. Social and cultural development resulted in a modern sense of selfhood. See self as multifaceted, complex entities who develop over time and who are responsible in a fundamental sense for their own development. Their live as projects they must work on. You are a novel, extended prose narrative featuring a main character. You live the story as you write it. Beginning in the ado years autobiographical authors who try to make sense out of the confusion of modern life by constructing integrative self narratives, complete with settings, scenes, characters, plots and themes. Sociologist anthony giddens: person"s identity not found in behavior, but capacity to keep a particular narrative going.