Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

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Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty is written by Harry Blatterer and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1836957416 (ISBN 10) and 9781836957416 (ISBN 13).

Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the “storm and stress” period of adolescence. This conception is strongly entrenched in the sociology of youth and the sociology of the life course as well as in the policy arena. At the same time, adulthood itself remains unarticulated; journey’s end remains conceptually fixed and theoretically uncontested. Adulthood, then, is both central to the social imagination and neglected as an area of sociological investigation, something that has been noted by sociologists over the last four decades. Going beyond the overwhelmingly psychological literature, this book draws on original qualitative research and theories of social recognition and thus presents a first step towards filling an important gap in our understanding of the meaning of adulthood.