Coming of age in America
Subtitle: the transition to adulthood in the twenty-first century
By: edited by Mary C. Waters ... [et al.].
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780520270930; 9780520270923
Subjects: Adolescence; Ethnology; History; Parent and teenager; Social classes
Description: Overview: What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places-New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota-to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education, work, marriage, parenthood, and housing. The first study to systematically explore this phenomenon from a qualitative perspective, Coming of Age in America offers a clear view of how traditional patterns and expectations are changing, of the range of forces that are shaping these changes, and of how young people themselves view their lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mary C. Waters, Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas; title: Straight from the heartland : coming of age in Ellis, Iowa / Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas; title: Transitions to adulthood in the land of Lake Woebegon / Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Jeylan Mortimer; title: If you can make it there; title: : the transition to adulthood in New York City / Jennifer Holdaway; title: Coming of age in America's finest city : transitions to adulthood among children of immigrants in San Diego / Linda Borgen and Ruben Rumbaut; title: Becoming adult : meanings and markers for young Americans / Richard A. Settersten, Jr.; title: Conclusion / Maria J. Kefalas and Patrick J. Carr.