Introducing Identity

1) What or who does Buckingham say identity "implies a relationship with a broader collective or special group of some kind".




2) According to Buckingham Identity is also "about identification with others whom we assume are similar to us in some significant way".







3) Why is Identity becoming more prominent (more important and visible) according to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman?
as it becomes more problematic.







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







Identity Formation: The Psychology of Adolescence

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

storm and stress.





6) How does Erikson see Adolescence?








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






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







Youth Culture and the Sociology of Youth

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






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