Mirrors and Masks: The Search for Identity

Mirrors and Masks shows that the fusion of theoretical approaches benefits the analyses of many scholars. Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity. Each sees himself mirrored in the judgments of others. The masks he presents to the world are fashioned upon his anticipations of judgments. This book uses the notion of identity to organize materials and thoughts about certain aspects of problems traditionally intriguing to social psychologists.

Anselm L. Strauss (1916-1996) was professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.