Introducing Identity

1) What or who does Buckingham say identity "implies a relationship with".

"Identity also implies a relationship with a broader collective or social group of some kind."


2) According to Buckingham Identity is also "about identification with others whom we assume are..."

'Identity is about identification with others whom we assume are similar to us, at least in some significant ways."


3) Why is Identity becoming more prominent (more important and visible) according to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman?

"Zygmunt Bauman, the new prominence that is accorded to identity is a reflection of the fact it is becoming ever more problematic."


4) Also according to Bauman, "Identity is almost infinitely..." what?

"identitiy, seeing it as almost infinitely negotiable, and in the process perhaps underestimate the continuing importance of routine and stability."


Identity Formation: The Psychology of Adolescence

5) How does G. Stanley Hall define the period of Adolescence as?

"G. Stanley Hall's classic accounts of adolescence.... Hall is  often credited with introducing the popular notion of adolescence as a period of 'storm and stress'"


6) How does Erikson see Adolescence?

"In the case of adolesecnce, the conflict is between identity and 'role confusion'"


7) Also according to Erikson, what needs to happen for a young person "to arrive at an integrated, coherent sense of their identity"

"must undergo a 'crisis'... self-reflection and self-definition"


8) How does Susannah Stern (from the same book) suggest that the internet and online activities can help this process?

"Susannah Stern's discussion of youth people's online authorship of blogs and home pages suggest that this activity can provide important opportunities for self-reflection and self-realization"


Youth Culture and the Sociology of Youth

9) According to Buckingham when was the category of the Teenager invented?

"The category of the 'teenager', for example, was effectively brought into being in the 1950s through market research"


10) What other categories does he state that "crucially blur the distinctions between children, youth and adults" ?

"'tweens', 'middle youth', 'kidults' and 'adultescents'"