Identity Of Young People Research Articles

Students’ (Inter)National Identities within International Schools: a Qualitative Study

Debates surrounding national and international identity are becoming increasingly prevalent with the rise of nationalist and populist rhetoric in the public sphere. International schools, which are growing in number, serve as valuable sites for conducting research on national and international identity as they can be viewed as a representation of the increasing diversification of many schools around the world. The aim of the study described in this article is to determine how the national and international identities of young people are influenced by being educated in this context. The conceptual frame of the study brings together a variety of concepts related to identity, categorised under national identity, transnational identity and cosmopolitan identity. In addition, the concept of ‘third space’ is drawn upon to reflect on the individualised process of negotiating identity. The study, undertaken with two international schools in Belgium and Serbia, found that attending an international school influenced students in a variety of ways, with some students strengthening their sense of international identity and others their national affiliation. It also emerged that the curricula and culture of these two schools promoted a hierarchy of identities, with the highest value awarded to Anglo-Western identities.

'A level playing field': Young people's experiences of wheelchair basketball as an enabling place.

Using a novel case-study of a youth wheelchair basketball team in Auckland, New Zealand, we investigate the experiences of young people with physical disabilities in recreational sports places. We consider the 'enabling places' created by this sport, which can enhance disabled young people's wellbeing and social inclusion. Semi-structured interviews with the team's players and coordinators revealed logistical and societal challenges associated with facilitating youth-oriented sports, as well as those encountered by team members personally. They also identified physical health and social benefits experienced through involvement in wheelchair basketball. The material, social and affective dimensions of participants' experiences of wheelchair basketball elucidate the capacity for the sport, and its team members and settings, to affirm young people's identity and place-in-the-world. We conclude that youth-specific, inclusive sports generate enabling places that enhance young people's social inclusion, wellbeing and life enjoyment.

Making ‘us’ visible: Using membership categorisation analysis to explore young people's accomplishment of collective identity‐in‐interaction in relation to digital technology

This article examines young people's sense of self and collective identity in relation to their use of specific digital tools available at their school. We use membership categorisation analysis (MCA) to explore how a group of young people produce a collective identity‐in‐interaction as captured in concrete relational speech acts. Fine‐grained MCA analysis of group interview talk reveals participant students operating as a collectivity to accomplish a sense of shared identity in relation to the iPad. This focus on the ways in which young people's identities are intertwined with digital technology distinguishes this article from the technicist and operational perspectives that dominate the field of educational technology research and demonstrates MCA's potential for illuminating the relationship that young people have with technology. The article contributes to a growing body of research that engages with more nuanced ways of understanding contemporary, technology‐mediated learning as a process of producing not only knowledge and skills, but also selfhood—both private and shared.

Shagaluf: reality television and British working class heterosexuality on holiday in Mallorca

ABSTRACT This paper draws from British reality television to further understand young people's touristic behaviours, actions and identities in Magaluf, Mallorca. The paper utilises thematic analysis in researching the content and imagery of three British reality television programmes and one documentary filmed in Magaluf and adds to the under-researched and limited work on reality television and theoretical understandings concerning the relationship between reality television and destination image. In this focus, the paper will also contribute to emerging ideas concerning how stigma of place(s), as represented through reality television, may serve as an important attraction, rather than a deterrent, to other young people who wish to have the type of holiday or experiences as portrayed on television. Finally, through a particular focus on performances of heterosexuality within the programmes discussed, this paper adds new understandings to the limited work on young men's heterosexualities within all male friendship networks on holiday.

Региональная идентичность в юношеском возрасте как маркер личностной связи с территорией проживания

One of the obviously understudied aspects of psychological well-being is one’s personal relation with their territory of residence, as even in the modern world the region of residence has a significant impact on young people's identity. Any malfunctions in the relationship between one’s personality and the social world result in personality disorders. Regional identity is a concept that reflects one’s conscious positive attitude towards the region of his/her residence. The paper explores the person’s image of the world captured in individual, territory-oriented units — concepts that form the conceptosphere of the resident’s regional identity. The analysis of the structure of the conceptosphere will help reveal the most significant categories of regional symbols for the young people. The aim of the study is to reveal the structure of the conceptosphere of regional identity in young people (with Sverdlovsk region students as an example) basing on the interpretation of separate concepts as well as of concept groups. The task of revealing and describing the structural components of the conceptosphere of regional identity of the Sverdlovsk Oblast resident was solved using a survey of 73 subjects aged 18 to 21 years. The subjects were asked to name 10 words-concepts that, in their opinion, characterize Sverdlovsk Oblast most fully and to range them according to their significance. Exploratory factor analysis was then used to reveal the structural components. As it was found, the structure of the conceptosphere of regional identity can be described with five components. The paper provides an empirical description of the following components in relation to regional identity in Sverdlovsk Oblast students: mythological-religious, existential, historical, natural, and value-based.

Rola kultury hip-hop w kształtowaniu się tożsamości młodzieży – wybrane konteksty

This article was developed on the basis of my master’s thesis on hip-hop culture as a factor shaping young people’s identity. In today’s world, young people are increasingly looking for ways to express themselves and their values, which may be associated with belonging to different types of subcultures. Growing individuals manifest their independence by disagreeing with the surrounding reality and defying the prevailing social principles. It seems appropriate to belong to a chosen youth subculture. I will devote my attention to the subculture originating among the black Americans, namely the hip-hop subculture. The rap environment is very often associated with a pejorative phenomenon, vulgarisms, blockers derived from the social margin. In today’s times, in the era of ubiquitous openness and availability of mass media, in the consumer-oriented environment, hip-hop has become a part of the lives of most young, adolescent audiences. The article will also present the development of hip-hop culture in Poland and around the world, as well as the effects that it brought in the process of shaping the identity of young people.

Ethnic and Language Identities among Finland-Swedish Young People

Abstract In youth many significant physiological and psychological changes take place. These identity changes are especially important for an individual’s identity development. However, questions of identity for young people, especially as they shift from childhood to adulthood, have become a central concern in numerous researches. Ethnic and language identities are bonds that hold a common social identification for individuals who view themselves as members of the same group. This study investigates the role and importance of ethnic and language identities for Swedish-speaking young people in Finland presented through an analysis of existing literature and documents on the matter. The data consists of essays written by 1012 (704 boys and 308 girls) ninth-graders from 12 Finland-Swedish high schools on the topic, “Me, a Finland-Swedish youth.” These were analyzed by using a thematic analysis. The results show that ninth-graders feel that the Finland-Swedish culture gives them a stable foundation in life that affects their identity, health and well-being in a positive way. The language and Finland-Swedish culture appear to be important for the youths’ sense of belonging and happiness as well as for a sense of stability in a changing world. Thus, the results illustrate that their language is an important aspect of self-identity and a central part of their lives.

“My youth, I call the shots”: A qualitative examination of university students' perspectives on life transition and identity development in China

There is a dearth of empirical evidence in Chinese societies to explore young people's identity development process in life transition from adolescence to adulthood. Using a qualitative methodology, this study conducted in-depth interviews with 18 Chinese university students in Shanghai, China. Participants had a mean age of 20.68 years (SD = 2.13). The sample consisted of eight men and ten women. Thematic analysis focusing on identifiable themes and patterns of experience and behavior was used in this study. Results indicated that in planning their lives and experimenting with new social roles, young people actively generated resources embedded in family relationships, peer groups, and other institutional networks. They recognized the changing family dynamics, enhanced peer networks, and received institutional support. Accordingly, they constructed a self that was more filial to parents, more exploratory toward life opportunities, and more oriented in a career than their previous selves.

Social media social comparison and identity distress at the college transition: A dual-path model

IntroductionSocial media provide a convenient platform for social comparison, an activity that should play an important role in youth's identity development at the transition to college. Yet, the identity implications of online social comparison have not been thoroughly explored. Drawing on the theories of social comparison, introspective processes, and identity distress, we examined a dual-path model. The paths from two types of social media social comparison (i.e., comparison of ability and comparison of opinion) to two introspective processes (i.e., rumination and reflection) and finally to identity distress were tested. MethodsShort-term longitudinal survey data were collected from 219 college freshmen at a state university in the United States of America (Mage = 18.29, S.D. = 0.75; 74% female; 41% White, 38% Black). ResultsSocial comparison of ability on social media had a positive association with concurrent rumination, which predicted higher identity distress. In contrast, social comparison of opinion on social media had a positive relationship with concurrent reflection, which, however, did not predict identity distress. ConclusionResults indicate that different types of online social comparison yield distinct implications for young people's identity development. Largely, the study reaffirms the recently rising call for distinguishing the competition-based social comparison of ability from the information-based social comparison of opinion. At the same time, the study expands current knowledge of why these forms of social comparison may lead to differential outcomes, namely through the type of introspection they induce.

Radikalisme dan Kaum Muda Dalam Perspektif Sosiologi

Lately radicalism in Indonesia is still warmly discussed. This phenomenon is a serious problem for the community. The organizational network of radicalism does not appear to be conspicuous, but if further examined lately the real threat of radicalism reemerged in Indonesia. This can not be separated from the other side of freedom of democrati- zation. The character or the soul of Indonesia as a nation, often called religus, friendly, tolerant, peaceful, gotong royong, and so on, is now being eroded and experiencing massive degradation. This paper will review the develop- ment of radicalism in Indonesia which in fact young people become agents in the process of the birth of radicalism in the perspective of sociology—the identity of young people as the next generation of the nation is at stake; how far they understand the question of radicalism in Indonesia; and youth radicalism can be seen as a response, criticism and antithesis, to orthodoxy and the mainstream that occurs in power relationships that can take the form of violence and nonviolence.

Sex and ambivalence: LGBTQ youth negotiating sexual feelings, desires and attractions

ABSTRACTIn popular and academic discourse, sexual identity is regularly linked to a concept of sexual engagement with others. Recent thinking on sexuality has, however, opened up the possibility of understanding ‘identity’ in ways different from sexual behaviour. This paper considers data from the Australian Queer Generations project, in which findings indicate that young Australian participants express complex ambivalences towards sex and sexual expression, and disavowals of the importance of sex. We consider what this might mean for young people's gender and sexual identities as well as implications for support for LGBTQ young people.

PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION: PREREQUISITES OF MODELING

The process of professional identification is derived from the process of primary socialization with appropriate impact of such agents of socialization as a family, a small social group, and an education establishment. The relevance of the study is due to the definition of professional identity of young people in the contemporary socio-economic conditions of formation of the labor force. In this context, this article aims to identify and disclose the key criteria that determine the success of professional identification of the young man, which is reflected in the personal context of his professional satisfaction, and in the state - in the growth of social capital, the development of social potential of the nation and the expansion of social and economic social life trajectories. The research is interdisciplinary in nature. The leading approach in this regard to the study of social problems is economic modeling of social processes, enabling complex to address issues of professional identity in the context of the formation of the labor force. The article presents the methodological background of socio-economic modeling, revealed features of perception of professional identity as the explained variable formed regression identified covariates considered the socio-economic model, a reasonable opportunity to use this approach to study the key trajectories of social development and forecasting possible trends.Article Submissions are of practical value to researchers of socio-economic modeling as common socio-economic processes, and the processes of personality formation and development of the youth strata in society.

Contextual constraints and choices: Strategic identity management among LGBTQ youth

ABSTRACTLesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) young people's identity management impacts their well-being, yet little is known about how distinctive social environments shape their identity management strategies. We qualitatively examined how 46 LGBTQ young adults ages 19–26, who are either homeless or attending college, manage their identities across distinctive social contexts. Young adults engaged in identity concealment, which extended across social context as both groups grappled with masking their identities. Furthermore, both groups of young people adapted to socioenvironmental challenges in navigating identity within social relationships. Finally, young adults emphasized the contextual importance of maintaining agency within identity. Understanding how LGBTQ young people immersed in various social contexts traverse identity-related challenges and establish effective coping strategies is essential in developing diverse social programs for this population.

VIRTUAL COMPETITIVENESS: YOUTHS’ VIEWS

Introduction. Nowadays, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) has become an integral part both of every individual’s life and of the society in general. It is no longer possible to deny the impact of virtual environment on socialisation and development of the identity of young people. In this regard, the investigation of young people’s view on virtual social networks, and the possibility of students’ own competitiveness realization through various web services. The aim of the research presented in the article is to study the factors of students’ assessment of virtual social networks as a tool of personal fulfillment. Methodology and research methods. Content analysis and synthesis of scientific publications studies were carried out at a theoretical stage of the research; secondary sampling analysis of sociologic data material sources was conducted. The empirical research stage involved the instrument of questionnaire surveys, statistical data processing and interpretation of the results. Results and scientific novelty. The social survey conducted in 2017 with the participation of 1087 high school students and 1196 college students of the Tyumen Region shown that the more competitive students consider themselves, the more competitive they perceive the people having great popularity on the Internet. At that, compared to girls, young people are more inclined to consider the people having great popularity on the Internet competitive. It is determined that having a popular virtual media account for the young person is less worthwhile than for female respondents. The author explains this fact: male representatives regard it as “social capital” which can contribute to growth of their competitiveness in society as well as to achieve some profit. The author concludes that youth views on competitiveness are not directly related to the activity in virtual social networks. Frequent use by respondents of the Internet and ICTs both in the course of training, and in spare time does not depend on the perception of personal level of competitiveness in society; although, the importance of having own popular social media account on the Internet is directly proportional to the level of own competitiveness assessment. Practical significance. The materials of the present research can be applied to develop and design recommendations for psychological and pedagogical maintenance of the process of youth socialization.

Participatory visual methods: exploring young people’s identities, hopes and feelings

ABSTRACTUsing visual ethnography as a participatory method that places children’s and young people’s everyday experiences at the centre of research is discussed in this paper. The strengths and challenges of using participatory visual methods as a way of eliciting the thoughts, feelings and identities of young people within various education and training contexts in England are presented through the reflection of two ethnographies’ that encouraged the use of participatory visual techniques to facilitate the gathering of data. Participatory visual approaches capture meaningful child-centred and child-generated perspectives of their everyday lives in situ [Oh, Su-Ann. 2012. ‘Photofriend: Creating Visual Ethnography with Refugee Children.’ Area. 44(3): 382–288. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01111]. The participatory visual method is a powerful instrument within the plethora of methods available to the ethnographer. By offering reflexive accounts of doing ethnography in an unobtrusive and child respectful way the power of ethnography is revealed via its versatility.

‘I'm not proud, I'm just gay’: Lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness

This article outlines the shared identity construction of five gay and lesbian members of an LGBT youth group, situated in a conservative, working‐class, Northern English town. It is shown that the young people's identity work emerges in response to the homophobia and ‘othering’ they have experienced from those in their local community. Through ethnography and discourse analysis, and using theoretical frameworks from interactional sociolinguistics, the strategies that the young people employ to negotiate this othering are explored; they reject certain stereotypes of queer culture (such as Gay Pride or being ‘camp’) and aim to minimise the relevance of their sexuality to their social identity. It is argued this reflects both the influence of neoliberal, ‘homonormative’ ideology, which casts sexuality in the private rather than public domain, and the stigma their sexuality holds in their local community. These findings point to the need to understand identity construction intersectionally.

Novye idei v sotsiologii ed. by Zhan Terent'evich Toshchenko

Reviewed by: Novye idei v sotsiologii ed. by Zhan Terent'evich Toshchenko Larissa G. Titarenko (bio) Zhan Terent'evich Toshchenko, ed. Novye idei v sotsiologii. 479 pp. Moscow: IUNITI-DANA, 2013. ISBN 978-5-238-02420-2. The title of this monograph is symbolic: in 1913–14 Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevskii and Evgenii Valentinovich De Roberti, who were among the first Russian sociologists, edited four collections of works with the same title.1 These volumes, published in St. Petersburg, included innovative articles by foreign and Russian scholars and significantly influenced Russian sociological thought by providing new and different methodological approaches to major topics of research. Likewise, the new monograph introduces the reader to ideas and theories in present-day Russian sociology. The book demonstrates that methodological issues in Russian sociology are as acute today as they were one hundred years ago. As the editor stresses, this book brings out "new facets of social consciousness, the processes of its development, in close connection with phenomena that contribute to, or complicate or hamper understanding, and reveal trends in the development of modern Russian society" (8). The book presents some modern Western ideas adopted by Russian sociologists to interpret and explain Russian realities, such as neurosociology, cellular globalization, and creative society: although well known at the world level of research, such concepts are innovative in the context of Russian sociology. The book makes these ideas available to a broad Russian audience that still lacks easy access to foreign sociological primary sources. The 27 articles by renowned Russian sociologists collected in this monograph outline these sociological innovations to explain "what is qualitatively changing our ideas about social reality in its manifold manifestations" (6). These articles describe and reassess new social phenomena in post-Communist Russia and the role of sociology in social knowledge production. Some of these articles enhance the theory of post-Communist transformation, while others provide empirical ground for an analysis of developments in the spheres of work, education, and the economy. The major focus of the book is on how Russia is currently changing: what the forms and levels of its modernization are, what kind of innovations are taking place in society, what new social conflicts arise in civil society, and why new types of alienation are appearing in cities and villages. According to the editor, this book describes the major characteristics of contemporary Russian society and gives examples on how to produce new social knowledge by researching social processes, social groups, and spheres of life. [End Page 149] This is not a "basic book" for those who wish to get an idea of present-day Russia and compare it with other countries experiencing transformation. Some preliminary knowledge of Russian society, including stratification, the political and economic system, and intellectual life is required. The authors focus on the Russian specifics of such processes as globalization, stagnation of social structure, in-country migration, the role of media in the construction of a new mythology, and the present and future of sociology. For example, they explain how specific forms of globalization affect the Russian North, causing the life of locals to be wholly different, and how the new socioeconomic reality predetermines the new identities of young people in the Russian South, where many ethnic groups live together. As the authors note, some new phenomena arise spontaneously and unexpectedly (for example, the precariat), while other phenomena are deeply rooted in the Russian past (negative mobilization of people experiencing economic and political crises and the effects of bureaucracy and social inequality). Most of the authors represent various research institutions in Moscow: The Institute of Sociology, the Higher School of Economics, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and the like. Their research is mostly based on the national monitoring or other national surveys conducted by their institutions, which makes findings empirically well grounded and applicable to the country as a whole. Based on national surveys, the authors have developed a new concept of young people who differ from previous generations, and describe the spread of the so-called trash culture, and the growth of income inequality. The book is divided into two parts: the first is devoted to methodological issues in sociology. Three programmatic articles in...

The role of social participation in the formation of identity in young people with mild intellectual disability and in intellectual norm: A comparative study

The article presents the results of a study on the role of social participation (Reinders) in shaping the identity (Luyckx et al.) of people with mild intellectual disability in late adolescence and emerging adulthood compared to those in intellectual norm ( N = 127). Three waves of measurement were carried out at semi-annual intervals, using the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS/PL-1) and the Social Participation Questionnaire (SPQ-S). In all the waves people with intellectual disability had a higher level of the moratorium orientation, and at Wave 3 they had a higher level of the transitive orientation. Differences in the levels of identity dimensions were observed in only one wave and only in the case of exploration in depth. The type of social participation has proved to be a factor differentiating the levels of identity dimensions, especially commitment making and identification with commitment, the highest level of which was observed in people with integration and assimilation types. The study responds to the need, expressed in the literature, to focus on specific groups in identity development studies.

Children's Geographies: Tracing The Evolution and Involution of a Concept

This essay traces the evolution of children's geographies as a concept through three phases. First, in the early 1970s as a beginning impression influenced heavily by developmental and environmental psychology. Second, beginning around 1990, children's geographies cohered politically as geographers focused on young people's identity through feminism and Marxism, and global policy initiatives on children's rights. The third phase, covering the last couple of decades, coming from issues of political identity, challenges what we think we know about young people and their geographies, and also advocates a set of loose theories about the ways young people create and re‐create spaces and themselves. Cognate disciplines coming to geography for insights about children and their worlds characterize this current phase. To offset this seeming linear progression the essay also notes an involution of the concept that defies clear categories and sequences, but suggests the fluidity of tensions and accommodations that comprises children's geographies.

Semangat dan Militansi Keislaman Kaum Muda di Ruang Publik

This study examines the dynamics of university students in fighting for their aspiration to uphold Islam in the public sphere. For their presence, mosque and campuses become their ideological base camp and Islamic thought. Islam and young people have become a special identity that negotiates with modernity. This study aims to provide a critical view on the prolongation of youth in understanding the reality of Islam in the public sphere, affected by the social and political situation in Indonesia during the New Order and post-reform era. In addition, it would provide a perspective on the identity of young people who take Islamic symbols in promoting for their ideation into the public sphere Yogyakarta City is selected as fieldwork location because the progressiveness of youth and Islam is increasing, and as the city of education centre Yogyakarta plays a role in transforming the Islamic culture of a new model for young people.