Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/11328/797
Title: | Risk-taking in youth culture as a ritual process |
Authors: | Jesus, Paulo Renato Formosinho, Maria das Dores Damião, Maria Helena |
Keywords: | At-risk youth Antisocial behavior Youth culture Identity Adolescence |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Citation: | Jesus, P. R., Formosinho, M.D., & Damião, M. H. (2011). Risk-taking in youth culture as a ritual process. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology, XXIII, 1(5), 451-458. |
Abstract: | This paper proposes a theoretical rereading of adolescent risk-taking experiences by adopting a sociocultural perspective. Thus, drawing from E. Erikson’s (1963, 1968) conception of identity exploration and experimentation, combined with V. Turner’s (1969, 1974) anthropological research on symbols, rituals, and liminal processes, as well as with recent research on the culture of risk-taking in adolescence (e.g., Eagan & Thorne, 2010; Lightfoot, 1997; Thorne & McLean, 2003), this paper argues that the so- called externalizing problems (and, more specifically, engagement in antisocial acting out) embody deep cultural scripts. These scripts, as we construe them, seem to obey a general schema that is crucial to contemporary youth culture and that one may phrase as “less structure and more intensity”, in line with Turner’s “anti-structure” concepts of “liminality” and “communitas”. In addition, this correlates with a sui generis style of reflexive storytelling strongly marked by discontinuity and ruptures, emblematically illustrated by episodes of interpersonal loss and ephemeral deviancy. We maintain that such forms of acting out constitute the embodiment of symbols which are rewritten and ritualized in peer groups, and whose appropriation and reiteration become the determining condition for gaining social recognition and personal worth. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11328/797 |
ISSN: | 0214-0877 |
Appears in Collections: | INPP - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais / Papers in International Journals |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Artigo 2011 Risk Taking Youth.pdf | 327.44 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.