This final chapter introduces you to thinking about what it means to become an adult,
drawing on many disciplines to consider the cultural and historical features of this process …

The life course is part of our taken-for-granted stock of knowledge, even though the temporal
boundaries of its phases have shifted under pressure from changing conditions. A case in …

Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in
America is written for students, parents, and practitioners to provide insight into how …

The path that individuals take from dependency in childhood to independence in adulthood
is now a longer and more complicated one than at any other point in history (Arnett 2014) …

Defining youth is always a challenge, particularly when using age criteria (Furstenberg,
2000; Galland, 2001; Gauthier, 2000). Who, in fact, are youths? Teenagers? Adults? Life …

Young people's lives have changed quite significantly in the past few decades with key
contexts such as education, labour market experiences and patterns of dependency having …

Emerging adulthood theory (EAT) cherishes broad recognition among scholars of social
sciences. Many youth researchers feel attracted to the idea of seeing adolescents and …

Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change is about adolescents and youth in the
process of transition to adulthood in the Western industrialized societies. It looks into the …

In this monograph, we investigate the developmental trajectories of a predominantly middle‐
class, community‐based sample of European American and African American adolescents …

Conceptions of the transition to adulthood in the contemporary American majority culture are
examined, and compared to conceptions cross-culturally and historically. Perspectives from …