The changing adolescent experience : societal trends and the transition to adulthood / edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer, Reed W. Larson.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Mortimer, Jeylan T., 1943- editor.
• Larson, Reed, 1950- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Adolescence--Forecasting.
• Teenagers--Social conditions--Forecasting.
• Youth--Social conditions--Forecasting.
• Twenty-first century--Forecasts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The path adolescents take from childhood to adulthood is a product of social, economic, political, and technological forces. These forces may facilitate youth's preparation to become healthy adults, or they may leave youth unprepared for adulthood. Knowledgeable projections are vital in shaping the agenda for research; for alerting educators, policy makers, and practitioners to new issues; and for formulating thoughtful responses to emerging dilemmas. This book focuses upon the future of adolescence in postindustrial societies. The authors identify some ominous societal changes that will affect youth: unstable job markets, competition for public resources due to an aging population, and widening income gaps between 'information workers' and low-skill workers. But they also observe opportunities created by information technology, innovations in health service delivery and criminal-justice rehabilitation, and the resourcefulness of a new generation. This volume examines these and other macro-structural changes that will impact adolescents' lives and their futures as adults.

Contents:

• Macrostructural trends and the reshaping of adolescence / Jeylan T. Mortimer, Reed W. Larson
• Youth in aging societies / Elizabeth Fussell
• Transition from school to work / Alan C. Kerckhoff
• Criminal justice in the lives of American adolescents: choosing the future / Frank T. Cullen, John Paul Wright
• Adolescent health care in the United States: implications and projections for the new millennium / Elizabeth M. Ozer, Tracy MacDonald, Charles E. Irwin, Jr.
• Youth and information technology / Ronald E. Anderson
• Social space, the final frontier: adolescents on the Internet / Kate Hellenga
• Approaching policy for adolescent development in the twenty-first century / James Youniss, Allison J. Ruth.

Notes:

• Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-107-13384-X
• 1-280-41987-3
• 0-511-17821-2
• 1-139-14818-4
• 0-511-06495-0
• 0-511-05862-4
• 0-511-30548-6
• 0-511-61391-1
• 0-511-07341-0

OCLC:

559404047