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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... psychological approach prevails. Both as a critique of and a complement to the individualizing perspective, the sociological perspective evoked here enables us to illuminate and then rethink some salient contradictions and ambiguities ...
... psychological approaches to adulthood.2 Psychologists began to take a particular interest in this “life stage” some time after the discovery of the “midlife crisis.” With this term Elliot Jacques (1965) attempted to explain a perceived ...
... psychologically oriented approaches, but seek to draw attention to the need for a complementary, sociological perspective from which social trends can be viewed in a larger context, and in a different light. To this end, my approach is ...
... psychologist Serge Moscovici has coined the term “social representations.” In La Psychoanalyse, son image et son public he offers this explanation: Social representations are almost tangible entities. They circulate, intersect and ...
... 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 into a ...
Inhalt
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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 |