Lost in Transition : The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood, Hardcover by Smith,...
by Patricia Snell Herzog, Kari Christoffersen, Christian Smith, Hilary Davidson
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Lost in Transition : The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood, Hardcover by Smith, Christian; Christoffersen, Kari; Davidson, Hilary; Herzog, Patricia Snell, ISBN 0199828024, ISBN-13 9780199828029, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Year: 2011
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780199828029
- Condition: Fine
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