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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... young. Yet we behave like children, us adults too. Perhaps it is rather the case that the me-generation never stopped, just kept expanding. From a properly sociological perspective, it now seems that there was a Golden Age life course—a ...
... youth (and implicitly to beauty, to narcissism). The analysis of paths of youth and class are brilliant. Enter the teen, the rebel, the counterculture. Now the judgement becomes wise, “be young ... adults who also need to negotiate the ...
Harry Blatterer. between “young people (15–24),” “population 25–64,” and “older persons (65+),” while at the same time referring to those under 35 as “young people” and labeling “adult” all those 15 and over (ABS 2001a; 2003; 2004a) ...
... adult, whatever our self-perceptions and self-identifications may be. This is rarely acknowledged in the literature ... young adults as well as their social scientific valuations. Adulthood and Social Science As a discipline dedicated ...
... adults, there is as yet no convincing 'sociology of adulthood' equivalent to the established areas of sociologies of childhood, of youth and of old age. Moreover, each of these major stages of the life course is defined, in cultural ...
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 |