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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... significance individuals attribute to their own attitudes and actions, but by the kinds of social validation these attract. Just as the interpretation of biological and psychological maturity is culturally specific, as Margaret Mead's ...
... significantly altered the meaning of adulthood. My schematic equation—economic stability plus an explicitly sanctioned normative consensus equals a stable adult identity—is not intended to be positive nostalgia.4 After all, standard ...
... significant degree rationalized along age lines (Buchmann 1989; Settersten 2003).6 The age-structured pathway through primary and secondary education is an obvious example. Yet, the search for a definitive point at which adulthood is ...
... significance of the twenty-first birthday in some societies, or the confidence with which individuals remark on how young or old somebody looks “for their age” without the slightest need for expert opinion. This is not to privilege ...
... significant contributions to our understanding of subjective views and manifestations of social changes. But the validity and utility of data hinge ultimately on how they contribute to concept building, and how new concepts are put to ...
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 |