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The first year out : understanding American teens after high school / Tim Clydesdale.
LIBRA LB1695.6 .C58 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clydesdale, Timothy T. (Timothy Thomas), 1965-
- Series:
- Morality and society
- Morality and society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High school graduates--United States.
- High school graduates.
- High school seniors--United States.
- High school seniors.
- College freshmen--United States.
- College freshmen.
- High school graduates--United States--Psychology.
- High school graduates--Employment--United States.
- High school graduates--Employment.
- Psychology.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 265 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager's first year after high school-but the reality is quite different. Tracking the day-to-day lives of fifty young people, Tim Clydesdale reveals how teens settle into manageable patterns of substance use and sexual activity; how they meet the requirements of postsecondary education; and how they cope with new financial expectations. Most of them, we learn, handle the changes well because they make a priority of everyday life. But Clydesdale finds that teens also stow away their identities- religious, racial, political, or otherwise-during this period in exchange for acceptance into mainstream culture. This results in the absence of a long-range purpose for their lives and imposes limits on their desire to understand national politics and global issues, which in turn undermines their ability to reconstruct their lives when tragedies occur.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: an unexpected journey
- Four teens
- Starting points
- Navigating relationships, managing gratifications
- Working for money, spending for fun
- Cognitively sharper, intellectually immune
- Narrowed perspectives, broader implications
- Methodological appendix
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226110653
- 0226110656
- 9780226110660
- 0226110664
- OCLC:
- 71322245
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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