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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... term Elliot Jacques (1965) attempted to explain a perceived rupture with ... Long 1988; Commons et al. 1989; Turner and Helms 1989). In fact, the ... term goals are compared with this template, the conclusion is a fait accompli: an ...
... longterm biographical trajectory. This particularly affects young people. U.S. citizens ... term the “delayed adulthood thesis.” It examines the image of adulthood this ... long standing are diminishing; uncertainty is becoming normalized ...
... long-term stability and economic growth (Harvey 1989: 135). Typically, businesses valued employee loyalty, which was generally rewarded with promotions in hierarchically constituted organizations. For employees and families this meant ...
... long-term work within reach for a majority, and with early marriage and family formation so common, what being grown up meant was clear. The fulfillment of the classic markers of adulthood (family, stable relationships, work, and ...
... stay in or episodic returns to the parental home; delayed or altogether forfeited marriage and family formation; drifting from temporary job to temporary job; or the repudiation of long-term aspirations in favor of short-term goals and ...
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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 |