Identity Formation, Youth, and Development : A Simplified Approach (Hardcover)

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 Adaptions 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. Contexts of Identity Formation in Late-Modern Societies  9. Identity Formation and the Potentials of Human Development