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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... perspective, it now seems that there was a Golden Age life course—a pattern of habits and expectations unique to the period of the postwar boom. Here there was a standard life-course, standardized expectations for men, women, and ...
... perspective, the sociological perspective evoked here enables us to illuminate and then rethink some salient contradictions and ambiguities concerning the perceptions, practices, and experiences of young adults as well as their social ...
... perspective from which social trends can be viewed in a larger context, and in a different light. To this end, my approach is to consider modalities of social integration in a time of advanced individualization and to reveal the ...
... perspectives on contemporary young adults, and how is it reproduced? These are some of the questions addressed in chapter 1. Their elaboration leads to a critique of a current orthodoxy, which I term the “delayed adulthood thesis.” It ...
... perspective that sees self-perception of one's adult or nonadult status as ultimately socially grounded, I elaborate this point in chapter 3 by way of Axel Honneth's theory of social recognition. Here I address our cultural association ...
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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 |