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2022 Rev. Universitara Sociologie 362 (2022)
The Snowflake Generation - The Implications of Overdeveloped Ego on Social Reality

handle is hein.journals/rvusoclge2022 and id is 940 raw text is: Revista Universitard de Sociologie -Year XVIII, Issue 3/2022 THE SNOWFLAKE GENERATION - THE IMPLICATIONS OF OVERDEVELOPED EGO ON SOCIAL REALITY Samira CIRLIG Scientific Researcher, The European Centre for Ethnic Studies, Romanian Academy (Romania); PHDc, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest (Romania) Email: oana.samira.cirlig@gmail.com Abstract This material deals with the effects of the main traits of the Snowflake generation, namely, exacerbated ego (hypersensitivity), overdeveloped individualism (selfishness) and fear. This typology of young people born between 1980 and 2000, known as the Me Generation has been approximated in the past by Constantin Rddulescu Motru by the concept of anarchic personality which is the opposite of energetic personality To understand whether the young people of the Me Generation belong to one of the two categories, I will first make some theoretical clarifications. Keywords: snowflake generation, ego, fear, anarchic personality, cultural personality 1. Conceptual delimitations 1.1. Personality in Constantin Radulescu Motru's vision To be able to talk about anarchic and energetic personality, the term personality must first be clarified from a theoretical viewpoint. This term, Constantin Radulescu Motru means a set of skills that help you accomplish a task. This determination is impossible without ego- consciousness (Radulescu-Motru, 1984: 552). In other words, personality is closely linked to the individual's ability to have a purpose in life. Vocation is from this viewpoint the greatest lever of progress (Radulescu-Motru, 1984: 521). The man who seeks to find and follow his vocation is a transformer of energy. He is the prophet of energetic personalism, toward which the whole of reality is evolving. (Radulescu-Motru, 1984: 521). Vocation plays a particularly important role in society because in it the highest moral and intellectual qualities of the soul are embodied together. It is therefore no coincidence that the people who have had more men of vocation have progressed the most (Radulescu-Motru, 1984: 521). This perspective is important because it raises the question of social change, which depends on how generations actively involve themselves, and implicitly in accordance with their vocation, in responding to the challenges of the times (the thesis of the generational entelechy of the German sociologist Karl Mannheim is taken up here) (Mannheim, 1952: 307). Returning to vocation, it can be said that its main merit lies in making man responsible for himself (Radulescu-Motru, 1984: 521). According to Radulescu Motru, personality crystallizes around the ego, but the structure of personality includes, besides the ego, many other soul elements. The ego is the flash of lightning that reveals where the soul's anticipation is leading! The personality is the solid machinery that mediates the realization of anticipation (Radulescu-Motru, 1984: 557). In other words, alongside vocation, personality has a close relationship with the ego because when we have the correspondence between ego and personality, the result is vocation (Radulescu- Motru, 1984.: 558). Here, a clear distinction must be made between ego and personality. The ego is the permanent feeling, or rather the feeling of man's superiority in relation to his environment (Radulescu-Motru, 1984: 559). Personality, on the other hand is a systematization of varied and externally multi-linked soul acts. It begins having a structure through the impulse given by the self, but once the structure has begun, it continues to develop through the incorporation of many elements foreign to the self (Radulescu-Motru, 1984). However, the link between the self and personality is so strong that the absence of the self leads to the disappearance of the personality: 'However rich and beautifully created the structure of 362

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