Coming of Age in Times of UncertaintyBerghahn Books, 01/12/2007 - 160 من الصفحات Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the “storm and stress” period of adolescence. This conception is strongly entrenched in the sociology of youth and the sociology of the life course as well as in the policy arena. At the same time, adulthood itself remains unarticulated; journey’s end remains conceptually fixed and theoretically uncontested. Adulthood, then, is both central to the social imagination and neglected as an area of sociological investigation, something that has been noted by sociologists over the last four decades. Going beyond the overwhelmingly psychological literature, this book draws on original qualitative research and theories of social recognition and thus presents a first step towards filling an important gap in our understanding of the meaning of adulthood. |
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... Australia or anywhere else in the suburban world—malls rule. Fordism is then frozen as a successful normative regime; but the world keeps moving. The notion of telos or transition is arguably normalized earlier, but it is less ...
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)—Australia's equivalent of Britain's National Statistics and the U.S. Census—confirms that there is no official agreement as to what age marks the beginning of adulthood. Definitions and ...
... Australia is where the research is situated; its social, political, and economic conditions frame the perceptions, views, and experiences of the interviewees and thus the conceptual innovations of the text as a whole. Yet, there are ...
... Australians are familiar with the “dark side of economic reform” (Pusey 2003), just as they are familiar with terrorism's real ... Australia is both a typical and an extraordinary case, and as such it is well placed to give clues to an ...
... Australia home ownership is part of the national imaginary; it is a dream to be made reality through hard work and frugality. A stable relationship, parenthood, and work can thus be seen as finding their culmination in the family home ...
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Adulthood Individualization and the Life Course | 28 |
Adulthood and Social Recognition | 51 |
From Adulthood as a Goal to Youth as a Value | 66 |
New Adult Voices i | 83 |
6 | 98 |
7 | 112 |
Bibliography | 125 |