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Following an outline of this book, Chapter 1 addresses two issues: first, challenges to the construct of self and self-referent concepts stemming from postmodernism/poststructuralism ideas, a radical social structural approach in sociology, and an extreme hermeneutic approach to ethnography and epistemological relativism in anthropology; second, criticisms of self-esteem research based upon reviews of the research literature challenging the measurement and explanatory utility of the concept.
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MacKinnon, N.J. (2015). Introduction. In: Self-Esteem and Beyond. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137542304_1
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