| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 The Identity Labyrinth |
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8 | (23) |
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A surprisingly new phenomenon |
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15 | (7) |
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The changing perceptions of identity |
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22 | (4) |
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Identity: a problem of normativity |
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26 | (5) |
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Chapter 2 Before Identity Crisis Was Given a Name |
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31 | (23) |
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33 | (5) |
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The discovery of adolescence |
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38 | (3) |
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Why was adolescence invented? |
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41 | (5) |
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Slowing down the transition to adulthood |
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46 | (3) |
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The institutionalisation of adolescence |
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49 | (5) |
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Chapter 3 The Cultural Contradictions of Adulthood |
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54 | (24) |
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Why was adulthood not discovered? |
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59 | (8) |
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The devaluation of adulthood |
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67 | (8) |
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75 | (3) |
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Chapter 4 Identity, Socialisation and Its Tenuous Link with the Past |
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78 | (23) |
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The problematisation of socialisation |
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82 | (2) |
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Loss of the sense of the past |
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84 | (6) |
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The fetishisation of change |
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90 | (4) |
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94 | (2) |
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What to transmit? The problem of normativity |
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96 | (5) |
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Chapter 5 Socialisation and Its Counter-Cultural Impulse |
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101 | (27) |
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103 | (7) |
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Socialisation -- a site for cultural contestation |
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110 | (9) |
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119 | (9) |
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Chapter 6 Quest for Moral Authority |
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128 | (21) |
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132 | (3) |
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The re-engineering of the normative foundation of society |
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135 | (6) |
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141 | (3) |
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Backlash against moral engineering |
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144 | (5) |
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Chapter 7 Inventing Authoritarian Personalities |
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149 | (21) |
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The pathology of socialisation |
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153 | (8) |
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Identity crisis and its relationship to the professionalisation of socialisation |
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161 | (6) |
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167 | (3) |
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Chapter 8 Towards a New Personhood |
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170 | (22) |
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From character to personality |
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170 | (4) |
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Cultural critique masquerading as diagnosis |
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174 | (7) |
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181 | (4) |
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The re-engineering of personhood |
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185 | (7) |
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Chapter 9 Cultural Turn to Identity |
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192 | (25) |
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The generational culture gap |
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197 | (4) |
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Politicisation of identity |
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201 | (5) |
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Adversary becomes elite culture |
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206 | (5) |
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The politicisation of validation |
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211 | (2) |
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Validated personhood and the devaluation of moral agency |
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213 | (4) |
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Conclusion: Awareness as Its Own Cause |
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217 | (15) |
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219 | (6) |
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Awareness as its own cause |
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225 | (7) |
| Bibliography |
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232 | (13) |
| Index |
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