ABSTRACT
Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural phenomena that force identity to defend and maintain itself by socially harmful means.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|64 pages
Identity and the Causes of Social Problems
part II|55 pages
Social Problems as Symptoms of Identity Needs
part III|64 pages
The Role of Identity in the Failure to Solve Social Problems
part IV|83 pages
Social Change and Identity Development