Early adulthood in cross-national perspective
By: Alan Heston, l editor
Contributors: Heston, Alan W; American Academy of Political and Social Science
Series: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- v. 580
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Young adults -- Cross-cultural studies; Adulthood -- Cross-cultural studies; Adolescence; Child development -- Cross-cultural studies; Intergenerational relations
Other titles: Early adulthood in cross national perspective
Description: Overview: How has the role of adolescence, as a life stage, changed in post-industrial Western societies? Although it's clear that there has been a definite change across most cultures in this life stage, the array of ways it has changed is surprising. This issue of The Annals is devoted to understanding how and why different nations have organized the life course of youth - between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four - in different ways and examines the consequences of this reorganization. The project sprang from a yearlong seminar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation. IT began by mapping out what was known about the transition from adolescence to adulthood and then examining historical and cross-national date on departure from school, entrance into the labor force, setting up an independent household, marriage, and parenthood. While a large amount of date existed, there was little analysis. So a series of papers (most of them included in this issue) were prepared. The objective was to look across the data sets to glean what could be learned from the causes and consequences of different "regimes" of the transition to adulthood. Although there is still much work to be done in this field, this compilation of articles has made great strides toward understanding the how the life stage of adolescence is shaped across cultures and provides a solid foundation for further research.
Notes: "March 2002."

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: The transition to adulthood in aging societies / Elizabeth Fussell; title: Regional differences in the transition to adulthood / Maria Iacovou; title: Cross-national variation in educational preparation for adulthood : from early adolescence to young adulthood / Laura Lippman; title: Cross-national differences in employment and economic sufficiency / Timothy M. Smeeding and Katherin Ross Phillips; title: Trends in youth sexual initiation and fertility in developed countries : 1960-1995 / Julien O. Teitler; title: The transition to adulthood : a time use perspective / Anne H. Gauthier and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.; title: An international comparison of adolescent and young adult mortality / Patrick Heuveline; title: Crime, problem drinking, and drug use : patterns of problem behavior in cross-national perspective / Manuel Eisner; title: Is youth a better predictor of sociopolitical values than is nationality? / James Tilley; title: Explaining aspects of the transition to adulthood in Italy, Sweden, Germany, and the United States : a cross-disciplinary, case synthesis approach / Thomas D. Cook and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.; title: Institutional variation and the position of young people : a comparative perspective / Richard Breen and Marlis Buchmann