...essence, a person's reputation. According to James, a person “has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind. To wound any one of these images is to wound him” (p. 294). When deciding on a trait's self-descriptiveness, I believe, people...

...recognition of others. As James said, "Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind. To wound any one of these images is to wound him." 67 James's description has a very contemporary ring: your sense of self is...

...social reactions" (1934, p. 142). James out it similarly: "... a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind" (1890, Vol. 1, p. 294). Thus self becomes a social construct, and human beings build their identities...

...which the "social self" of man exists in society, says, "... a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their minds." Then, in speculating upon what a man would feel if he were completely socially excluded, he...

...Principles of Psychology (1890), William James wrote that "a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind." Several years later, George Herbert Mead began to formulate a social definition of selfhood. If Mead...

...graphic as it is pragmatic. Properly speaking, a man has as man social selves as there are [groups of] individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind.... He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.... We do not show...

...as to be unworthy of attention at all. Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image...individuals who carry the images fall naturally into dasses, we may practically say that he has as many different social selves as there are distinct groups...

...James carried the argument a step further: Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind. To wound any one of these images is no wound him. Bun as the individuals who carry the images fall naturally into classes, we...

...16. This is why we should be wary of William James's claim "A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind. To wound any one of these images is to wound him. . . . We may practically say that he has as many different social selves as...

...from James's Principles of Psychology: Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind ... he has as many different social selves as there are distinct groups of persons whose opinion he...