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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... social constitution and the meaning of adulthood in affluent, highly differentiated, contemporary societies. To ... scientific valuations. Adulthood and Social Science As a discipline dedicated to analyzing and interpreting social change ...
... 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—adulthood is seen as dependent on individuals' self ...
... social-scientific and media views ensures the reproduction of everyday assumptions about what adulthood is, and what ... social scientists and commentators cling to their understanding of what it means to be an adult—something that is in ...
... scientific representations? What is the relationship between age norms ... society” (Bauman 2001a) and the imperative to turn one's life into a project are ... social conditions that frame our understanding as well as the experiences of ...
... scientific discipline, and critiquing the psychology of his day to make his point, Emile Durkheim used the term “collective representations” to describe the social a priori of ideas. Relatively fixed, even time honored, myths, legends ...
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 |