Self and Identity Through the Life Course in Cross-Cultural Perspective

by Owens

• ISBN13: 9780762300334
• ISBN10: 0762300337
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-02
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

This volume represents a new name and a new focus for its predecessor, Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle (volumes 1-4). We begin our new series, now titled Advances in Life Course Research, with volume 5. Its statement of purpose is the publication of theoretical analyses, reviews, policy analyses and positions, and theory-based empirical papers on issues involving all aspects of the human life course. It adopts a broad conception of the life course, and invites and welcomes contributions from all disciplines and fields of study interested in understanding, describing, and predicting the antecedents of and consequences for the course that human lives take from birth to death, within and across time and cultures (construed in its broadest sense), regardless of methodology, theoretical orientation, or disciplinary affiliation.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Aggression and Self-Derogation: Moderating Influences of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Stage in The Life Course	1	(32)
Howard B. Kaplan
Shaheen Halim
Self, Identity, and the Moral Emotions Across the Life Course	33	(22)
Timothy J. Owens
Suzanne Goodney
The Impossible Me: Misconstruing Structural Constraint and Individual Volition	55	(22)
Michelle Stem Cook
The Development and Transformation of Feminist Identities Under Changing Historical Conditions	77	(22)
Pamela Aronson
The Cross-Culturing Work of Gay and Lesbian Elderly	99	(20)
Melvin Pollner
Dana Rosenfeld
Generativity in the Lives of Elder Catholic Women Religious	119	(24)
Susan Perschbacher Melia
Threats to Academic Identity and Commitment for Faculty of Color	143	(16)
Robert K. Leik
Alexandra R. Goulding
What Does It Mean to ``Know Thyself'' in the United States and Japan?: The Cultural Construction of the Self	159	(22)
Susan E. Cross
Agency in Young Adulthood: Intentional Self-Change Among College Students	181	(26)
K. Jill Kiecolt
J. Beth Mabry
Accomplishment and Discouragement at School: An International Comparison of Developmental Trends	207
John Modell