Identity Politics is Spreading To Eastern Europe From Anglosphere - Prof. Frank Furedi

Prof. Frank Furedi, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, joins Peter Whittle on the #SWYSI sofa to discuss his new book “100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialization“. In terms of his new book, Prof. Furedi points out that the concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. Exploring the historical origins of this development, Frank Furedi argues that the principal driver of the crisis of identity was and continues to be the conflict surrounding the socialisation of young people. In turn, the politicisation of this conflict provides a terrain on which the Culture Wars and the politicisation of identity can flourish. Through exploring the interaction between the problems of socialisation and identity, this study offers a unique account of the origins and rise of the Culture Wars. - The first historical sociological study of changing relation between the crisis of identity and