Social and Personal Identity: Understanding Yourself by Derek Layder

How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book provides a reliable guide to these questions.
· Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around basic needs for security and self-esteem and the personal desires that flow from them
· Shows the role of the emotions in personal life
· Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existence of 'individuals' and 'personal experience'