Young People's Constructions of the Self: Late Modern Elements and Gender Differences  

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O'Connor, Pat

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociology vol. 40 no. 01 (Feb. 2006), page 107–124.
Topik: gender; late modern; reflexivity; self; young
Fulltext: 107.pdf (154.12KB)

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This article looks at the ways in which young people reflexively construct their self within a rapidly changing society. Drawing on texts written by young people aged 14–17 years, it explores the existence of patterns identified by theorists of late modernity as regards relationships, fateful moments, a search for authenticity, life plans and life styles and looks at gender-differentiated trends in these areas drawing on a ‘weak cultural feminist tradition’ (Evans, 1995: 91).These texts are part of a sub-sample of approximately 34,000 texts written by young people in a school context in response to an invitation to ‘tell their life stories’ by writing a page ‘describing themselves and the Ireland they inhabit’.The article suggests that gender is a repressed but crucially important framework in the construction of young people’s sense of self, while also identifying areas where consumer society is eroding gender difference.

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