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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... fact most of us do not believe this in terms of our everyday sensibilities and dispositions. Harry Blatterer's contribution in this book is brilliantly to work this interface between radical critique of the present and affirmation of ...
... fact, the book gets better as it proceeds. Adulthood is now reconsidered as personhood, and we step to recognition. The maturity and balance here is remarkable, calm, reflective, but poignant. Then we turn to youth (and implicitly to ...
... fact, for most people today who consider themselves grown up, adulthood is no mystery. For them, it is the middle period of life that follows adolescence. Consequently, the need to inquire into its meaning does not arise. Yet, for an ...
... facts,” as Emile Durkheim (1966) called them, exist prior to and beyond our lives, and yet it is we who reproduce and transform them through our actions. As lay participants in everyday life we evaluate, mostly by reflex, individuals ...
... fact, the psychological approach to adulthood dominates the social scientific purview and is the main influence on sociologists dealing with the subject. In the few relevant works with a sociological bent—particularly in recent writing ...
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9 | |
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 |