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100 Years of Identity Crisis
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100 Years of Identity Crisis
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Identity Labyrinth
A surprisingly new phenomenon
The changing perceptions of identity
Identity: a problem of normativity
Chapter 2: Before Identity Crisis Was Given a Name
Finding one’s place
The discovery of adolescence
Why was adolescence invented?
Slowing down the transition to adulthood
The institutionalisation of adolescence
Chapter 3: The Cultural Contradictions of Adulthood
Why was adulthood not discovered?
The devaluation of adulthood
Transition to what?
Chapter 4: Identity, Socialisation and Its Tenuous Link with the Past
The problematisation of socialisation
Loss of the sense of the past
The fetishisation of change
Discontinuity of culture
What to transmit? The problem of normativity
Chapter 5: Socialisation and Its Counter-Cultural Impulse
Social engineering
Socialisation − a site for cultural contestation
Targeting culture
Chapter 6: Quest for Moral Authority
The quest for authority
The re-engineering of the normative foundation of society
Displacing the political
Backlash against moral engineering
Chapter 7: Inventing Authoritarian Personalities
The pathology of socialisation
Identity crisis and its relationship to the professionalisation of socialisation
Politics of prevention
Chapter 8: Towards a New Personhood
From character to personality
Cultural critique masquerading as diagnosis
The validated child
The re-engineering of personhood
Chapter 9: Cultural Turn to Identity
The generational culture gap
Politicisation of identity
Adversary becomes elite culture
The politicisation of validation
Validated personhood and the devaluation of moral agency
Conclusion: Awareness as Its Own Cause
Becoming an ideology
Awareness as its own cause
Bibliography
Index
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