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Informationen zum Autor KEVIN McDONALD was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up near Carswell Air Force Base during the height of the Cold War-a time when B-52s routinely launched and returned carrying nuclear weapons meant to ensure America's survival. After earning a Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin, he was commissioned into the United States Navy and became a naval aviator.Following the First Gulf War, Kevin left the Navy and spent the next twenty years flying a public-safety rescue helicopter for Travis County in Central Texas. His first book, "Life Inside the Dead Man's Curve," is a white-knuckle narrative about his thirty-five-year flying career.Now retired, he lives with his wife in Austin, where he continues to write about his two greatest passions-aviation and history. Klappentext This book, first published in 2000, explores the relationship between experiences of selfhood and patterns of social life. It does so through an encounter with young people who confront urgent social and cultural transformations, whose experience of selfhood is unclear, often shaped by social forces that while powerful, appear difficult, if not impossible to name. These young people live in a world where institutions are weakening and identities fragmenting, where socialisation into roles is being replaced by imperatives of communication and self-esteem. Their world is shaped by different forms of freedom, but also by different forms of social polarisation and conflict. More than other social groups, young people confront the imperative of locating a sense of self and subjectivity, and this book is an account of this struggle in a context of profound social and cultural change. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2000! examines the urgent social and cultural questions faced by young people. Struggles for Subjectivity is not only about young people! but explores forms of crisis and struggle increasingly evident in advanced societies at the beginning of the millennium. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Subjectivity and social experience; Part I. The End of a Working Class Experience: 2. You come from the bad side; 3. Something's gotta start; 4. We're the scum; 5. Morals is all you've got; 6. I want to get out of this; Part II. Navigating the Flow: 7. None of the above; 8. You'll be forgotten; 9. Between the body and the self; 10. We stand up for what we are; 11. Struggles for subjectivity....
