Sentence:  Using the case of male urban youth in Monrovia, Utas describes the rise of Liberia's <WSD>youthmen</WSD>: “Due to economic crisis and increasing dependence on the central state in the 1980s an ever-growing number of young people in urban and semi-urban environments were excluded even from the possibilities of becoming adults. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A man who has reached the age of adulthood but has not attained an adult social status (living independently with a stable livelihood, marriage, and family).