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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... marriages, mortgages, and children; the family sedan, adultery, and divorce; investment portfolios, nest eggs, life insurance, writing a will—these are things we do, strive for or object to, hold dear, or consider commonplace. None of ...
... marriage, parenthood, work, independent living? Taken together, these uncertainties are signs that adulthood is becoming less ordinary, that it is losing its taken-for-granted status, and that as a result the meaning of adulthood is ...
... marriage and family formation, and short-term goals are compared with this template, the conclusion is a fait accompli: an increasing number of individuals take longer to reach adulthood than was the case for previous generations. This ...
... marriage and family formation came to be lived experience for many adults.2 Add to this the opportunities provided by the labor market, and a picture emerges that one commentator draws with clarity: [O]nce 'adult' and employed, one ...
... 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 independent living) brought in its wake the social recognition ...
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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 |