عنوان

Lost in transition

شابک

0199857539 (electronic bk.)

شابک

6613164631 (electronic bk.)

شابک

9780199857531 (electronic bk.)

شابک

9786613164636 (electronic bk.)

شابک اشتباه

0199828024

شابک اشتباه

9780199828029

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Lost in transition

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the dark side of emerging adulthood /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Christian Smith ; with Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson, and Patricia Snell Herzog.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2011.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (284 p.)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Morality adrift -- Captive to consumerism -- Intoxication's "fake feeling of happiness" -- The shadow side of sexual liberation -- Civic and political disengagement.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Life for emerging adults is vastly different today than it was for their counterparts even a generation ago. Young people are waiting longer to marry, to have children, and to choose a career direction. As a result, they enjoy more freedom, opportunities, and personal growth than ever before. But the transition to adulthood is also more complex, disjointed, and confusing. In lost in transition, Christian Smith and his collaborators draw on 230 in-depth interviews with a broad cross-section of emerging adults (ages 18-23) to investigate the difficulties young people face today, the underlying causes of those difficulties, and the consequences both for individuals and for American society as a whole. Rampant consumer capitalism, ongoing failures in education, hyper-individualism, postmodernist moral relativism, and other aspects of American culture are all contributing to the chaotic terrain that emerging adults must cross. Smith identifies five major problems facing very many young people today: confused moral reasoning, routine intoxication, materialistic life goals, regrettable sexual experiences, and disengagement from civic and political life. The trouble does not lie only with the emerging adults or their poor individual decisions but has much deeper roots in mainstream American culture--a culture which emerging adults have largely inherited rather than created. Older adults, Smith argues, must recognize that much of the responsibility for the pain and confusion young people face lies with them. Rejecting both sky-is-falling alarmism on the one hand and complacent disregard on the other, Smith suggests the need for what he calls "realistic concern"--And a reconsideration of our cultural priorities and practices--that will help emerging adults more skillfully engage unique challenges they face. Even-handed, engagingly written, and based on comprehensive research, Lost in Transition brings much needed attention to the darker side of the transition to adulthood.

عنوان

Lost in transition.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780199828029

موضوع مستند نشده

Young adults-- United States-- Attitudes.

موضوع مستند نشده

Young adults-- United States-- Conduct of life.

موضوع مستند نشده

Young adults-- United States-- Social life and customs-- 21st century.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Smith, Christian,1960-

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Davidson, Hilary A., (Hilary Anne)

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Herzog, Patricia Snell.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hojara, Kari M.

تاريخ عمليات

20120419094958.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y