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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... transform them through our actions. As lay participants in everyday life we evaluate, mostly by reflex, individuals' attainment or nonattainment of adult status according to objective achievements such as stable fulltime work, stable ...
... transformations, word forms, set phrases, adages and precepts may very well continue to be handed down over the generations; however, their meaning changes and with it the way in which they pinpoint a specific referent, encapsulate ...
... transformation that could well further undermine working people's ability to envisage a coherent, longterm biographical trajectory. This particularly affects young people. U.S. citizens are no strangers to these issues, and some ...
... transformation and the subsequent expansion of youth as an ideal across the life course, and I connect this with dynamics of social recognition that are specific to advanced capitalist societies. This study is an exploration of the ...
... transformations. Today, demographic and cultural transformations that originate in the post–Second World War decades are forcing apart ideas about adulthood and the practices that produce its substance. The emerging cleavage is manifest ...
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 |