Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Abstract

Mark Tappan (2005) utilizes the autobiography of Malcolm X to exemplify how dialogical processes such as ‘ideological becoming’ act on the development of identity, considering at the same time the role of sociocultural dynamics of domination and subordination. Concentrating on this dialogical process, I seek to help its interpretation with a focus that emphasizes the necessity of studying the processes tied to the transitions of development and turning points, situating the ‘ideological becoming’ process within a larger model which, in my opinion differentiates more clearly the different experiential aspects that can be implicated in the development of a new identity. At the same time I use elements of the autobiography of Malcolm X to illustrate these processes.

Keywords

developmental transition identity development identity formation ideological becoming ritual process paradigm turning point

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Bakhtin, M. (1981). The dialogic imagination ( M. Holquist , Ed.; C. Emerson & M. Holquist, Trans.). Austin: University of Texas Press .

Bateson, G. (1991). Sacred unity: Further steps to an ecology of mind ( R.E. Donaldson , Ed.). San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins .

Clausen, J.A. (1995). Gender, contexts, and turning points in adult’s lives. In P. Moen , G.H. Elder, Jr. & K. Lüscher (Eds.), Examining lives in context: Perspectives on the ecology of human development (pp. 365–389). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association .

Cowan, P.A. (1991). Individual and familiy transitions: a proposal for a new definition. In P.A. Cowan & E.M. Hetherington (Eds.), Family transitions (pp. 3–30). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum .

Dunham, R.M. , Kidwell, J.S. , & Wilson, S.M. (1986). Rites of passage at adolescence: a ritual process paradigm . Journal of Adolescent Research, 1, 139–154 .

Erikson, E.H. (1968). Identity: Youth, and crisis. New York: Norton .

Erikson, E.H. (1987). Late adolescence. In S. Schlein (Ed.), A way of looking at things (pp. 631–643). New York: Norton . (Original work published 1959.)

Fogel, A. (2001). A relational perspective on the development of self and emotion. In H. Bosma & E.S. Cuneen (Eds.), Identity and emotion(pp. 93–114). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .

Iborra, A. (2003). Rituales y tareas del desarrollo: Cambios generacionales y repercusiones sobre la madurez personal [Rituals and developmental tasks: Generational changes and influence on personal maturity]. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Valencia.

10.

James, W. (1958). The varieties of religious experience. New York: New American Library . (Original work published 1902.)

11.

Malcolm X. (1964). The autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine .

12.

Markstrom, C. , & Iborra, A. (2003). Adolescent identity formation and rites of passage: The Navajo Kinaaldà ceremony for girls . Journal of Research on Adolescence, 13(4), 399–425 .

13.

McWhirter, J. (1998). Re-modelling NLP, Part 1—Models and modelling. Rapport (43).

14.

McWhirter, J. (2000). Re-modelling NLP, Part 6 —Understanding change. Rapport (48).

15.

McWhirter, J. (2002). Re-modelling NLP, Part 12B—Hypnotic inductions and hypnotherapy. Rapport (55).

16.

Mey, G. (2000). Qualitative research and the analysis of processes. Considerations towards a ‘Qualitative Developmental Psychology’ . Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(2) [On-line]. Available: http://qualitativeresearch.net/fqs/fqs-e/2–00inhalt-e.htm HYPERLINK “http://qualitativeresearch.net/fqs/fqs-e/2–00inhalt-e.htm”

17.

Sparkes, A.C. (2002). Telling tales in sport and physical activity: A qualitative journey. Leeds: Human Kinetics .

18.

Tappan, M.B. (2005). Domination, subordination and the dialogical self: Identity development and the politics of ‘ideological becoming’ . Culture & Psychology, 11, 47–75 .

19.

Valsiner, J. (1997). Culture and the development of children’s action. A theory of human development (2nd rev. ed.). New York: Wiley .

20.

Valsiner, J. , & Diriwächter, R. (in press). Qualitative For schungsmethoden in historischen und epistemologischen Kontexten. In G. Mey (Ed.), Qualitative Forschung in der Entwicklungspsychologie. Cologne: Kölnerer Studien Verlag .

21.

van Gennep, A. (2004). The rites of passage (M. Vizedom & G.L. Caffee, Trans.). London: Routledge . (Original work published 1909.)

22.

Wolfenstein, E. (1981). The victims of democracy: Malcolm X and the black revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press .

Beyond Identity and Ideology: Processes of Transcendence Associated with the Experience of Conversion

Abstract

Keywords

Get full access to this article

References