Coming of Age in Times of UncertaintyBerghahn Books, 1 dec 2007 - 160 pagina's 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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... lives. The love my parents and siblings show to one another and to me so unambiguously, sincerely, uncompromised by geographical distance, is the source of my perseverance. And finally: as I am approaching another threshold, which like ...
... live with their parents; 35-year-olds in tertiary education; those in their mid thirties and beyond who are not prepared to commit to a partner, let alone a family. Add to this that in today's society statements such as “kids grow up ...
... lives, and yet it is we who reproduce and 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 ...
... lives is . . . the paramount task of sociology.” This, then, is an effort to do justice to that vision and to the promise it contains. 1 REPRESENTATIONS OF ADULTHOOD ~ “What is called the common-sense 8 • coming of age in times of ...
... lives. Toward the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century adulthood became the default position: a life stage situated between adolescence and old age. G. Stanley Hall's (1904) work on adolescence was pivotal in ...
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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 |
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7 | 112 |
Bibliography | 125 |