Profiles in identity: a study of Indian youth at crossroade of culture
- New Delhi Vision Books 1976
- 292 p.
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.