Struggles for subjectivity : identity, action, and youth experience / Kevin McDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Kevin, 1955- author.

Series:

Cambridge cultural social studies.

Cambridge cultural social studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Social conditions.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

You come from the bad side: exploring social experience

Something's gotta start: class consciousness

We're the scum: stigmatisation, racism and crisis

Morals is all you've got: in search of community

I want to get out of this: the struggle against social logics

None of the above: contemporary experiences of the gang

You'll be forgotten: visibility and mobility of graffiti writers

Between the body and the self: the anorexic terrain

We stand up for what we are: ethnicity and Aboriginality

Conclusion: struggles for subjectivity.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19236-6

1-283-52885-1

9786613841308

1-139-12187-1

1-139-12679-2

1-139-11396-8

1-139-11177-9

1-139-11613-4

1-139-10687-2

OCLC:

784883467