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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Kyle Eichas is a 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 an 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 an 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.
