Graduation trips : how do they inform self-identity?

• Main Author: Liew, Valerie Zi Ying.
• Other Authors: Tan Joo Ean
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51736
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores how graduation trips serve to reflect the active construction of self-identity in late modernity, following the works of Giddens (1991). Issues such as the tourist experience, the meanings conferred upon the trip, how the trip allows respondents to effectively narrate their sense...