ABSTRACT
In virtue of their sociality, individual selves are engendered in determinate patterns, even if in the long process of being formed and reformed they define and redefine themselves many times over. This chapter examines some of the general characteristics of the self-models, illustrates how they become "entrenched", and comments on some of the principal self-models proposed for entrenchment in modern societies and the relationship of those proposals to social criticism. It considers the bearing of the self-models and of proposals for self-models upon the logic of self-judgment. Finally, the chapter looks at the kinds of judgment one might want to make of two groups, the Nazis and the Dobuans, both of whom depart from the norms of prevalent self-models, though in very different ways. The considered acceptance of a self-model, therefore, need not preclude the acceptance of diversity among the models for self-formation. Tolerance amid diversity may well show the power and success of the self-models that provide for them.
