Definition Essay: The Search For Identity

The search for identity can be resolved in a number of ways. Some young people, after a period of experimentation and soul searching, commit themselves to a life goal and proceed towards it. For some, the "identity - crisis " may not occur at all. These are the adolescents who accept their parent's values without question and who proceed towards a career consistent with their parent's views. In a sense, their identity "crystallised" early in life.

Still other young people adopt a deviant identity - one that is at odds with the values of society.
a. A young man who has been pressurised all his life to go to law school and then join the family firm may rebel and decide to become a new-age traveller. b. Some inner-city adolescents, rather than