"Impatient with popular and academic hand-wringing over 'prolonged
adolescence' (or young people's unwillingness to grow up),
Blatterer in this overdue sociological treatise on the changing
nature of adulthood in Western society counters that such judgments
unfairly draw on obsolete norms of adulthood... Blatterer's writing
is eloquent...his arguments are well considered, important, and
thought-provoking."- Choice
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.
Harry Blatterer is Lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie
University where he teaches introductory sociology, social theory
and courses on the life course, generations and intimacy.
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