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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... grow up any more, especially not the young. Yet we behave like children, us adults too. Perhaps it is rather the case that the me-generation never stopped, just kept expanding. From a properly sociological perspective, it now seems that ...
... grow up? We do not grow, perhaps; we learn (perhaps). We struggle, and it is this that makes us what we are. The image of standard adulthood is nevertheless normalized after World War II, after the postwar boom. This is a symptom of ...
... 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 increasing number of others things are less clear-cut ...
... grow up is high on the agenda, reports rarely proffer opinions that go beyond a generation's supposed attitudes and consumer ... growing up. But of course meanings do change, even if they change slowly: “In the course of ... evolutionary ...
... growing up during that time. This would unnecessarily stretch the limits of this volume as well as the conceptual apparatus required to reveal the emerging redefinition of adulthood. Rather, I selectively highlight some widely ...
Inhalt
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 |