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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... commonsense assumptions. As a theorybuilding project the book investigates emerging social trends rather than analyzing specific social situations in a given milieu. The history I sketch, and from which I draw, is the history of ...
... commonsense understanding of adulthood and its social scientific representations? What is the relationship between age norms, notions of maturity, and adulthood? How is the prevailing model of adulthood deployed in current perspectives ...
... . . the paramount task of sociology.” This, then, is an effort to do justice to that vision and to the promise it contains. 1 REPRESENTATIONS OF ADULTHOOD ~ “What is called the common-sense 8 • coming of age in times of uncertainty.
Harry Blatterer. 1 REPRESENTATIONS OF ADULTHOOD ~ “What is called the common-sense view is actually the grown-up view taken for granted.” Peter Berger, An Invitation to Sociology (1963) Bent on proving the value and validity of sociology ...
... commonsense concept and social phenomenon. Still, the meaning of ideas, concepts, and social phenomena changes along with largescale social transformations. Today, demographic and cultural transformations that originate in the post ...
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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 |
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7 | 112 |
Bibliography | 125 |