...interactionists, and much as James had defined it. In reference to the social self, James reasoned as follows: Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves...recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind . . . but as the individuals who carry the images fall naturally into classes, we may practically say...

...encounter. Linked with this aspect of the self was James's formulation of the multiple social self concept: "a man has as many social selves as there are individuals...recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind" (James 1970, 374; emphasis in the original). James's (1970, 374; emphasis in the original) following...

...Gray was published (1890-91), William James would observe in The Principles of Psychology (1890) that "a man has as many social selves as there are individuals...who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind"—a view, according to Henry B. Wonham, that may have been anticipated a decade earlier by Henry...

...speeding train) and is thus a plurality, James labels this plural being the social self and asserts, "a man has as many social selves as there are individuals...who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind,"4 As such, the plurality of the self is real only in the sense that different perspectives are...

...empirical source in the recognition given the person by others. Indeed, James asserted that a person: ... has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him... . But as the individuals who carry the images fall naturally into classes, we may practically say that...

...Finally, one's social me is "the recognition which [one] gets from his mates" (46). According to James, "Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves...recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind" (46; emphasis added). The social self is multiple, and divided, sometimes even by "discordant splitting"...

...Wright, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornel West. A remark by William James— "a man has as many social selves as there are individuals...who recognize him and carry an image of him in their minds" — reminds us of the extent to which "Whitman" exists as an identity created nearly as much...

...our best to please. A person's social self, for James, is the recognition she receives from others. "A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and earrv an image of him in their mind" (PP28i ). But a person does not care equally about each person's...

...James' oben zitierte Überlegungen gingen in diese Richtung: „a man has äs many social selves äs there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind. ... But äs t he individuals rvho carry the images fall naturally into classes, we may practically...

...selves answering to different social relations.' James {l890-I950. voL I: 24l took a similar view: 'a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognise him and carry an image of him in their mind.' This accords with Moreno's social atom. T and...