Finding Political Identities Young People in a Changing Europe /

• Main Author: Ross, Alistair (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
• Subjects: Political sociology.; Social groups.; Family.; Europe-Politics and government.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Political Sociology.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; European Politics.; Self and Identity.

This book explores how young people in Europe construct their political identities. Based on small discussion groups with 2000 young people across 29 European states, Alistair Ross explores how 13 to 20 year olds build identities in contemporary society, creating contingent narratives of local, nati...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Locations, Loyalties and Labels
• 2. Values and Issues
• 3. Diversities and Generational Change
• 4. The Contingent and Contextual Resources of Identity Construction
• 5. Continental Perspectives
• 6. Hierarchies of Cohesion and Diffusion
• 7. How Is It Done? Metaphors for Constructing Identities. .