Autorentext

Kyle Eichas is Professor of Psychology at Tarleton State University in Waco, Texas, USA. His scholarly interests include outreach research and the development of community-supported interventions to promote positive human development.

James E. Côté is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the founding editor of Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, associate editor of The Journal of Adolescence, and the author or co-author of ten other books.

Charles G. Levine was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Among other publications, he co-authored several articles and a book with Lawrence Kohlberg, Moral Stages: A Current
Formulation and a Response to Critics.

Klappentext

A landmark volume in the scientific study of identity formation and youth development, this fully revised second edition synthesizes sociological and psychological approaches to the study of identity.

Inhalt

Preface to the New Edition xiv PART I Philosophical and Conceptual Roots of the Identity Question 1 1 From Ageless Questions to Current Theories 3 2 Culture and History: How Current Experiences Differ From the Past 26 3 A Social Psychology of Identities and Their Formation 51 PART II Late Modernity: Contextual Adaptations to Individualization Processes 75 4 Moral Reasoning: A Relational Basis of Individualized Identities 77 5 Proactivity: Agency in Identity Formation 102 6 Identity Capital: Strategic Adaptions to Late-Modern Societies 125 PART III The Transition to Adulthood: Developmental Contextualism Applied to Late Modernity 149 7 Current Scientific Approaches to Self-Development and Identity Formation 151 8 Identity Formation and the Youth Mental Health Crisis 178 9 Contexts of Identity Formation in Late-Modern Societies 215 10 Identity Formation and the Potentials of Human Development 249 Conclusion: Improving Outcomes for All 267 Glossary of SIFT Terminology 273 Index 277