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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... 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 benefits to an international readership that flow from this very fact. The ...
... economic, and foreign policy. Like many North Americans, many Australians are familiar with the “dark side of economic reform” (Pusey 2003), just as they are familiar with terrorism's real and imagined threats. The uncertainties with ...
... Second World War the industrialized economies experienced unprecedented affluence and stability. The period from about 1945 to the early 1970s saw a concerted effort by business, government, and unions representations of adulthood • 13.
... economic expansion. The then-prevailing mode of management and organization, what came to be known as Fordism, has since come to denote more than that: it signifies a once-prevalent “total way of life” that congealed around goals of ...
... economic and technological advance, was checked by the knowledge that the possibility of total annihilation was just as real. For example, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 served as a stark reminder of tragic possibilities.3 The lived ...
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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 |