Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity, Action and Youth Experience

by Kevin McDonald

Book Overview

This book explores the relationship between new experiences of selfhood and new 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521664462
• ISBN13: 9780521664462
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"