Book contents
- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Epigraph
- Introductory chapter
- Part I Theoretical contributions
- 1 Positioning in the dialogical self: recent advances in theory construction
- 2 Time and the dialogical self
- 3 Developmental origins of the dialogical self: early childhood years
- 4 Self-making through synthesis: extending dialogical self theory
- 5 Multiculturalism, multiple identifications and the dialogical self: shifting paradigms of personhood in sociocultural anthropology
- 6 Acculturation and the dialogical formation of immigrant identity: race and culture in diaspora spaces
- 7 Psychodrama: from dialogical self theory to a self in dialogical action
- 8 Identity construction among transnational migrants: a dialogical analysis of the interplay between personal, social and societal levels
- 9 Negotiating with autonomy and relatedness: dialogical processes in everyday lives of Indians
- 10 Dialogicality and the internet
- 11 Schizophrenia and alterations in first-person experience: advances offered from the vantage point of dialogical self theory
- 12 The dialogical self in the new South Africa
- Part II Methods for studying the dialogical self
- Part III Domains of application
- Epilogue
- Index
9 - Negotiating with autonomy and relatedness: dialogical processes in everyday lives of Indians
from Part I - Theoretical contributions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Epigraph
- Introductory chapter
- Part I Theoretical contributions
- 1 Positioning in the dialogical self: recent advances in theory construction
- 2 Time and the dialogical self
- 3 Developmental origins of the dialogical self: early childhood years
- 4 Self-making through synthesis: extending dialogical self theory
- 5 Multiculturalism, multiple identifications and the dialogical self: shifting paradigms of personhood in sociocultural anthropology
- 6 Acculturation and the dialogical formation of immigrant identity: race and culture in diaspora spaces
- 7 Psychodrama: from dialogical self theory to a self in dialogical action
- 8 Identity construction among transnational migrants: a dialogical analysis of the interplay between personal, social and societal levels
- 9 Negotiating with autonomy and relatedness: dialogical processes in everyday lives of Indians
- 10 Dialogicality and the internet
- 11 Schizophrenia and alterations in first-person experience: advances offered from the vantage point of dialogical self theory
- 12 The dialogical self in the new South Africa
- Part II Methods for studying the dialogical self
- Part III Domains of application
- Epilogue
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the specific nature of dialogical relationships in the Indian self and society. Relationships among members of any group are guided by cultural, social and historical orientations that develop over centuries. In Indian communities, there exists a deep sense of relatedness with other people. Among Indians, reality itself is believed to be contingent upon context. Conversational interface among Indians is usually multiparty. Whether it is in childcare or social gatherings, there is a tendency to use strategies of multiparty discourse. The chapter presents ten illustrations which indicates how deeply (and differently) other people construct everyday conversations in the lives of Indians and one prevalent format for discourse is what can clumsily be called to everyone in general and no one in particular. It shows how social interactions guide the developing person towards active engagement with cultural reality while retaining individual agency.
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- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory , pp. 169 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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