![]() ![]() For example, those from middle-class origins attending universities must compete with each other and adapt to late-modern circumstances if they are to improve, or even maintain, their social class origins. ![]() Although some theorists use the individualization thesis from a post-structuralist point of view, arguing that agency is more important than structural factors like social class, this paper shows that it is not necessary to take such a position when using the individualization thesis. This social-psychological model postulates that, net of structural obstacles, those who are more agentic in investing in their adult identities are better equipped to negotiate individualized life-course passages. In this paper, strategic responses to this requirement of late-modernity are described in terms of the identity capital model. Theories of the life course are increasingly taking into account conditions in late-modern societies that make it necessary for people to undertake the process of individualization in the transition to, and through, adulthood. ![]()
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