▪ Abstract The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the
essence of humanness. Human agency is characterized by a number of core features that …

The 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text is now co-authored, and includes
significant changes from earlier texts. Presenting a comprehensive review of over a century …

Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually,
interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions …

Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science
theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from …

This book is written with two main types of reader in mind: students and researchers in social
science and humanities who have little if any background in language analysis (eg in …

This book, which is aimed at the advanced undergraduate student, is the first systematic and
comprehensible introduction to the theory and application of discourse analysis within the …

This article presents the basic tenets of social cognitive theory. It is founded on a causal
model of triadic reciprocal causation in which personal factors in the form of cognitive …

For almost four decades, Theories of Human Communication has offered readers an
engaging and informative guide to the rich array of theories that influence our understanding …

Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime
of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate …

Theories of internalization typically suggest that self-perceptions of the" causes" of (ie,
reasons for) behavior are differentiated along a continuum of autonomy that contains …