Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty
ISBN-10
1845456289
ISBN-13
9781845456283
Category
Social Science
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2009-07-15
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Harry Blatterer

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.

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