Profiles in identity: a study of Indian youth at crossroade of culture

The body of the book
All the youth in this sample have participated in the research
**Impact of Management Training on Life Orientation." They
have also participated in the course "Careers, Roles and
Identity" and "Interpersonal Relations". As a part of the
research they have undergone intensive clinical interviewing
based on the data obtained from the courses and from the
psychological tests used during the research. We have used all
this data for our analysis and understanding of the youth.
The data can be classified into two streams. The first is the
stream of intra-psychic phenomenology of the youth. The
second stream is the experience-based analysis of the Indian
social systems, that is the family, the education and society at
large. As such, the data has been consolidated into two
separate books. The data of the first stream, that is the intra-
psychic phenomenology of the youth's growth has been
organised, analysed, and presented in the present book titled
Profiles in Identity : A Study of Indian Youth at Crossroads of
Culture. The data of the second stream has similarly been
systematised and presented with some annotations in another
volume awaiting publication and titled Profiles of Indian
Social System : Experiences with the Social Processes of Indian
Society. The organisation of the present book is around twenty
cases whose data represents the wider sample of 300 in all its
multiplicity, diversity and depth. This we have called "The
Evidence' which has been organised in seven sets. The seven
sets are our classification and labels for the significant modes
of personal and social presentation of the youth. These are :
(a) Ghosts who walk by, (b) Echoes and Shadows, (c)
Castaways, (d) Forlorn, (e) Rolling Stones, (f) Smooth
Sailors, and (g) Heir Apparents.