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Author Waters, Mary C

Title Coming of Age in America : the Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (431 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 -- Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa; 2 -- Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon; 3 -- I f You Can Make It There ... : The Transition to Adulthood in New York City; 4 -- Coming of Age in "America's Finest City": Transitions to Adulthood Among Children of Immigrants in San Diego; 5 -- Becoming Adult: Meanings and Markers for Young Americans; 6 -- Conclusion; Appendix: Methods; References; Contributors; Index
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 pa
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Subject Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Parent and teenager -- United States
Ethnology -- United States.
Social classes -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Adolescence
Ethnology
Parent and teenager
Social classes
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Child & Youth Development.
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Carr, Patrick J
Kefalas, Maria J
Holdaway, Jennifer
ISBN 9780520950184
0520950186