Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Global responses to globalization
- 2 Theoretical assumptions and methods
- 3 The discourse of globalization and youth culture
- 4 National youth identity policy
- 5 Collaborative entrepreneurship
- 6 Shaping national youth identity on the ground
- 7 Conclusions
- References to scholarly works
- Index
7 - Conclusions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Global responses to globalization
- 2 Theoretical assumptions and methods
- 3 The discourse of globalization and youth culture
- 4 National youth identity policy
- 5 Collaborative entrepreneurship
- 6 Shaping national youth identity on the ground
- 7 Conclusions
- References to scholarly works
- Index
Summary
In exploring national youth identity construction under globalization, I have highlighted the role of strategic actors and organized social settings. Doing so, I hope, offers a particular set of insights into the process of social identity construction, more for what this reveals about society and its encounter with globalization than for its ability to capture and explain the identities held by young people. For this purpose, as I have argued, it is essential to explore the microprocesses through which ideal or prescriptive identities are constructed. This in turn allows us to understand and explain identity formation in terms of the meanings of various constructs, as well as the reasons for which they are strategically employed. As we have seen, understanding how national identity is formulated and publicly articulated sheds considerable light on why this takes place, at least with regard to the reasons and meanings that inform the process. Moreover, the preceding chapters have shown that – at least under conditions of globalization – national identity formation rests not simply on passive diffusion but on decisions and interventions undertaken at the national and local levels, in the pursuit of social and political goals. While I have focused mainly on strategic actors, including their interrelations and planned interventions, we have also seen that such entrepreneurs are sensitive to the anticipated wishes and demands of young people, whose socialization they seek to influence.
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- National Identity and GlobalizationYouth, State, and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia, pp. 178 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007