Cultural variation in conceptions of self

There is, however, another argument for the social construction of self, based on the claim that notions of self vary enormously from culture to culture. And on the face of it, there does seem to be a lot of evidence that this is true. For instance, the philosopher Rom Harré has argued that the different use of personal pronouns in different cultures reflects different conceptions of the self.

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