James E. Cote

Youth Development in Identity Societies (eBook, PDF)

Paradoxes of Purpose

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Uses developmental psychology and sociology to explore the contradictions in young people's lives that relate to lack of purpose within affluent societies centered on personal identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429783241
• Artikelnr.: 54670068

Autorenporträt

James E. Côté is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. He is the founding editor of Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research (2000-05), current Associate Editor of the Journal of Adolescence (since 2009), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education (2016). James served as President of the Society for Research on Identity Formation (SRIF) (2003-2005) and President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on the Sociology of Youth (2010-14). In addition to dozens of journal articles and book chapters, he has authored or co-authored ten other books in the areas of identity studies, youth studies, and the sociology of education, most recently Identity Formation, Youth, and Development: A Simplified Approach (2016) and Youth Studies: Fundamental Issues and Debates (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Gary T. Reker Part I: Identity and Purpose in Modern Societies 1.
The Principal Paradox: Prosperity Without Purpose 2. From Roles to
Identities: The Crisis of Purpose in a Sea of Choice 3. Finding Direction
and Forming Identities: The Meaning of Purpose and the Purpose of Meaning
Part II: Coming of Age Struggles in Identity Societies 4. Growing Up in
Identity Societies: The Cross-Purposes of a Prolonged Youth 5. The
Paradoxes of Universal Higher Education: Students Misdirected by
Credentialism 6. The Student Mental Health Crisis: The Perfect Storm for
Identity Confusion Part III: Purpose, Agency, and Generativity: New Forms
of Adulthood 7. Adulthood in Identity Societies: Agency and Generativity in
a Sea of Confusion 8. The Brave New Adult of Identity Societies: A Brave
New World? 9. Conclusion: Purpose as a Mutual Project