Article history: Received 25 August 2010 Received in revised form 16 December 2010 Accepted 21 January 2011 The objective of the paper is to explore narrative foreclosure as a sensitizing concept for studying the ways in which narrative identity development falters in later life. Two main characters in famous movies are contrasted to provide a better understanding of narrative foreclosure. The ...

Abstract Nationalism remains a compelling ideological force and is the most important marker of collective identity in modern times. It inspires idea nation by forging strong bonds solidarity through invocation pre-existing ethnic, cultural or religious loyalties. Recurrent political conflicts Iran have often been driven nationalist ideologies. This chapter demonstrates central role rivalry bet...

Culture war, as an analytical category, is a modern means of cultural struggle between antagonistic positions that seeks monopoly over the legitimate representation one’s own identity. It constructs culturally contestable relations substantive elements such life, religion, nation, status or race, which are heavily invested with sacredness, turning world values into fundamental battleground with...

Identity diffusion is a core element of the borderline personality organization. A valid and reliable assessment tool needed to identify at-risk adolescents in Italian context. In this study, we investigated psychometric properties Assessment Development Adolescence (AIDA), self-report questionnaire designed assess identity vs. integration, an sample (N = 1,102) clinical nonclinical adolescents...

The rapid and continuous growth of social networking sites has led to the emergence of many communities of communicating groups. Many of these groups discuss ideological and political topics. It is not uncommon that the participants in such discussions split into two or more subgroups. The members of each subgroup share the same opinion toward the discussion topic and are more likely to agree w...

Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a transnational ideology which legitimises them. In other words, an ideology to justify, on the one hand, the minimisation of the state’s role in the economy —which, in a market economy system implies a corresponding maximisation of the role of the market and private capital— and, on the othe...

SOMMARIO: 1. Brevi considerazioni introduttive - 2. L’identità liquida del gender 3. La famiglia nell’ottica 4. Gender inclusive language, genitorialità e modelli educativi 5. sfida antropologica 6. I riflessi sulla naturale 7. In somma.
 Beyond the male and female. The family among colors of fluid
 ABSTRACT: ideology considers a person’s sexual identity, as or female, according to pe...

august of 1941 coincided with the reza shah’s exile and opening of the cultural and political environment in iran. the tudeh party gained more power, albeit it owed its power to the presence of former soviet :union:s troops in iran during world war ii. after withdrawal of soviet troops from iran, members and supporters of the party wondered what would happen to the party and its members and sup...