Identity Formation, Youth, and Development : A Simplified Approach (Paperback, 2 ed)

Part I. Philosophical and Conceptual Roots of the Identity Question? 1. From Ageless Questions to Current Theories 2. Culture and History: How Current Experiences Differ From the Past 3. A Social Psychology of Identities and Their Formation
Part II. Late Modernity: Contextual Adaptations to Individualization Processes? 4. Moral Reasoning: A Relational Basis of Individualized Identities 5. Proactivity: Agency in Identity Formation 6. Identity Capital: Strategic Adaptations to Late-Modern Societies? Part III.?The Transition to Adulthood: Developmental Contextualism Applied to Late Modernity? 7. Current Scientific Approaches to Self-Development and Identity Formation 8. Identity Formation and the Youth Mental Health Crisis 9. Contexts of Identity Formation in Late-Modern Societies 10. Identity Formation and the Potentials of Human Development 11.Glossary of SIFT Terminology