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Like an entertaining teacher engaging students in a seminar, drawing widely on his knowledge of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, literature, and recent research on the brain, Sal Restivo builds the case that a person's self cannot be fully understood by studying the functioning of the brain alone. In one fascinating chapter, he illustrates how his theory of the social self can explain the evolution of the elements of John Coltrane’s style of jazz improvisation over the course of his career. To Restivo, Coltrane’s social self as a musician was an open evolving system, the product of an historically evolving social network within the context of the jazz subculture. Restivo's theory has wide implications for contemporary sociological theorizing about the self. -- Michael P. Farrell, University of Buffalo, author of <i>Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work</i>

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Sal Restivo is a retired sociologist/anthropologist, a founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and the editor-in-chief of Oxford’s Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia (2005).

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