SOCSCI 2P03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Permissive Society, Identity Formation
28 Oct 2016
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The lost generation: inuit youth in transition to adulthood. These youth are in a harsh and unforgiving environment that requires subsistent skills in order to survive. In actuality, there identity achievement is based on identity foreclosure: tradition, surviving. Built on a way of life that started long ago and is still exercised today (stone-age kind of living) As we moved into the 20th century, what we believed as a natural culture, we had to bring the. Inuit into the 20th century; we superimposed what we refer to as the white-european interpretation of what their reality should be upon them: schooling, computers, new way of thinking, new way of living. This superimposing ruined the culture that the people had to some non-salvageable level: this was a nomadic, very permissive society, no school; children learned through observation. It was subsistent skills and subsistent living that helped them survive: their transition went from childhood to adulthood; there was no adolescence period.
