Youth in Contemporary India Images of Identity and Social Change /

• Main Author: Bansal, Parul. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Education > Philosophy.; Psychology.; Engineering.; Social work.; Consciousness.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Educational Philosophy.; Human Resource Management.; Job Careers in Science and Engineering.; Social Work.; Popular Science in Psychology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0715-3

This book endeavors to be a study of identity in Indian urban youth. It is concerned with understanding the psychological themes of conformity, rebellion, individuation, relatedness, initiative and ideological values which pervade youths search for identity within the Indian cultural milieu, specif...

Table of Contents:

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PART 1: FOUNDATIONS
• Introduction
• Identity in Youth: Conceptual and Methodological Underpinnings
• PART 2: NARRATIVES, CONVERSATIONS AND LIFESTORIES OF CORPORATE YOUTH
• Introductory note
• Reflections on Corporate Youth
• PART 3: NARRATIVES, CONVERSATIONS AND LIFESTORIES OF HUMANIST YOUTH
• Introductory note
• Reflections on Humanist Youth
• PART 4: SUMMING UP
• Youth in India: Identity and Social Change
• References.