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Adolescence in the 21st Century - Constants and Challenges (Hardcover)
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Adolescence in the 21st Century - Constants and Challenges (Hardcover)
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What is wrong with young people today? This question has captured
the concerns of the older generation about the habits and attitudes
of the adolescents in their midst. The assumption is that there is
indeed something wrong with young people. Even Plato must have
rolled his eyes, as he relates his diatribe about the adolescents
of Greece. Is the current generation of adolescents less motivated
or less focused than their parents? How will they respond to the
challenges facing them as they progress to adulthood? When, in
fact, do they become adults? Although every generation draws upon
their own unique and varied experiences, the speed of our current
societal changes has created a very different adolescent passage
for contemporary youth than ever before. The world as we know it
has changed significantly and because of it, much of today's youth
is decidedly different from their parents. Adolescence itself has
shifted dramatically. Young children are displaying adolescent
behaviors well before they are ready to act on or understand their
meaning, and older adolescents are staying perpetual children. As
one writer put it, "the conveyer belt that transported adolescents
into adulthood has broken down." This book provides an
interdisciplinary collection of research on the constants and
challenges faced by young people today. Failure to launch? Social
media? Economic stagnation? For the generation that is coming of
age in a post-terrorist world and in the midst of economic
upheaval, the challenges might seem insurmountable. However, in
this book, scholars from across the academy, from sociology,
psychology, education, philosophy, science, and business, explain
how the young people today are responding to the constants of
growth and change in adolescence and the unique challenges of life
in the 21st century.
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