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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... perception is the key? Or perhaps it is 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 ...
... perceptions and self-identifications may be. This is rarely acknowledged in the literature where a psychological approach prevails. Both as a critique of and a complement to the individualizing perspective, the sociological perspective ...
... perceptions that underpin its social manifestations. Approach and Method I explore ways in which adulthood can be adequately conceptualized against the background of current forms of social life. I do not argue against psychologically ...
... perceptions, experiences, and attitudes in order to gain insights into contemporary adulthood as lived experience. The respondents' stories are invaluable guideposts toward a better understanding of a research area particularly when, as ...
... perception of one's adult or nonadult status as ultimately socially grounded, I elaborate this point in chapter 3 by way ... perceptions of youth—an idea that is at least as difficult to make tangible as the idea of adulthood. Youth is ...
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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 |