The Development of Market-Driven Identities in Young People: A Socio-Ecological Evolutionary Approach.

ABSTRACT: With the transition toward densely populated and urbanized market-based cultures over the past 200 years, young people's development has been conditioned by the ascendancy of highly competitive skills-based labor markets that demand new forms of embodied capital (e.g., education) for young people to succeed. Life-history analysis reveals parental shifts toward greater investment in fewer children so parents can invest more in their children's embodied capital for them to compete successfully. Concomitantly, the evolution of market-based capitalism has been associated with the rise of extrinsic values such as individualism, materialism and status-seeking, which have intensified over the last 40-50 years in consumer economies. The dominance of extrinsic values is consequential: when young pe

SUBMITTER: Butler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258256 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature