ON THE FRONTIER OF ADULTHOOD. THEORY, RESEARCH AND PUBLIC POLICY.

SETTERSTEN JR., Richard A. ( Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., & Ruben C. Rumbaut., ( Editors).

ISBN 10: 0226748898 / ISBN 13: 9780226748894

Published by The University Of Chicago Press., Chicago,, 2005

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8vo. pp 591. Fine in fine dust wrapper. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ON THE FRONTIER OF ADULTHOOD. THEORY, RESEARCH AND PUBLIC POLICY.
• Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press., Chicago,
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226748898
• ISBN 13: 9780226748894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

"On the Frontier of Adulthood" reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development.Especially dramatic shifts have occurred in the conventional markers of adulthood - leaving home, finishing school, getting a job, getting married, and having children - and in how these experiences are configured as a set. This volume considers the nature and consequences of changes in early adulthood by drawing upon a wide variety of historical and contemporary data from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe.Accounts in this study reveal how the process of becoming an adult has changed over the past century, the challenges faced by young people today, and what societies can do to smooth the transition to adulthood.

About the Author

Richard A. Settersten Jr. is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University. He is the author of Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science. Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is coauthor of Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success. Ruben G. Rumbaut is professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is coauthor of Immigrant America: A Portrait and Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation.