基本説明
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.
Full Description
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 patterns and expectations are changing, of the range of forces that are shaping these changes, and of how young people themselves view their lives.
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mary C. Waters, Patrick J. Carr, and Maria J. Kefalas
1. Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa
Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas
2. Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon
Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann, and Jeylan T. Mortimer
3. If You Can Make It There . . . : The Transition to Adulthood in New York City
Jennifer Holdaway
4. Coming of Age in "America's Finest City": Transitions to Adulthood Among Children
of Immigrants in San Diego
Linda Borgen and Rubén G. Rumbaut
5. Becoming Adult: Meanings and Markers for Young Americans
Richard A. Settersten Jr.
6. Conclusion
Maria J. Kefalas and Patrick J. Carr
Appendix: Methods
References
Contributors
Index
