Coming of age in America : the transition to adulthood in the twenty-first century / edited by Mary C. Waters ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waters, Mary C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Adolescence.

Parent and teenager--United States.

Parent and teenager.

History.

United States.

Ethnology--United States.

Ethnology.

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Mary C. Waters, Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas

Straight from the heartland : coming of age in Ellis, Iowa / Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas

Transitions to adulthood in the land of Lake Woebegon / Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Jeylan Mortimer

If you can make it there

: the transition to adulthood in New York City / Jennifer Holdaway

Coming of age in America's finest city : transitions to adulthood among children of immigrants in San Diego / Linda Borgen and Ruben Rumbaut

Becoming adult : meanings and markers for young Americans / Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

Conclusion / Maria J. Kefalas and Patrick J. Carr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520270923

0520270924

9780520270930

0520270932

OCLC:

707842425