Coming of Age in Times of UncertaintyBerghahn Books, 01.12.2007 - 160 Seiten 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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... Course 28 3 Adulthood and Social Recognition 51 4 From Adulthood as a Goal to Youth as a Value 66 5 New Adult Voices i 83 The Meaning of Adulthood 6 New Adult Voices ii 98 Without a Center that Holds 7 Conclusion 112 Redefining ...
... 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 children, one size fits all, and these senses expanded ...
... course, should have gone unattended for so long is a mystery.” More recently, Jane Pilcher (1995:82) echoed Smelser's sentiments when she referred to “the neglect of adulthood as a social category,” as did James E. Côté (2000: 53) when ...
... course is defined, in cultural practices and in sociological theories, largely in relation to adulthood.” This book not only addresses the unusual relationship between sociology and adulthood, but also aims to make a contribution to a ...
... course meanings do change, even if they change slowly: “In the course of ... evolutionary transformations, word forms, set phrases, adages and precepts may very well continue to be handed down over the generations; however, their ...
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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 |