Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty
Subtitle: Redefining Contemporary Adulthood
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781845452858
Subjects: Adults; Child & developmental psychology; Nonfiction / Social Science; Sociology - General; Social Science; Adulthood; Life cycle, Human; Social role; Sociology
Description: "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."--pub. desc.