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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817640403321

Titolo

Coming of Age in America : The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century / / Mary C. Waters, Patrick Joseph Carr, Maria Kefalas, Jennifer Ann Holdaway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-280-10208-X

9786613520548

0-520-95018-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Classificazione

LB 43610

Disciplina

305.2350973/09051

Soggetti

Adolescence - United States - History - 21st century

Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 21st century

Ethnology - United States

Ethnology -- United States

Parent and teenager - United States

Parent and teenager -- United States

Social classes - United States

Social classes -- United States

Adolescence - History - 21st century - United States

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Child & Youth Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa -- 2. Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon -- 3. If You Can Make It There . . . : The Transition to Adulthood in New York City -- 4. Coming of Age in "America's Finest City": Transitions to Adulthood Among Children of Immigrants in San Diego -- 5. Becoming Adult: Meanings and Markers for Young Americans -- 6. Conclusion --



Appendix: Methods -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.