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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... notion of telos or transition is arguably normalized earlier, but it is less transition than movement which is fundamental. The norm of adulthood therefore corresponds to high modernity, or in theory to modernization theory. The problem ...
... notions and ways of life. We are at once subject to and productive of those dynamics of social recognition that shape what it means to be an adult, whatever our self-perceptions and self-identifications may be. This is rarely ...
... notions of maturity, and adulthood? How is the prevailing model of adulthood deployed in current perspectives on contemporary young adults, and how is it reproduced? These are some of the questions addressed in chapter 1. Their ...
... notion of psychological maturity, which at that time began to develop into a metaphor for adult status. Jordan identifies as crucial to the emergence of the mature individual qua adult the transformation of Calvinist predestinarianism ...
... notion of social maturity adds an extra dimension. It takes as its starting point the premise that adulthood is ... Notions of maturity hold an important place in the self-understanding 12 • coming of age in times of uncertainty.
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 |