Crossings to Adulthood

How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives

Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann, Rubén G. Rumbaut (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-33646-9 (ISBN)

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Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives, draws on more than 400 interviews with diverse young adults to examine how young Americans understand their lives and the challenges they face as they move into adulthood.

Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives assembles chapters written by members and affiliates of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood on pressing issues facing young, coming-of-age Americans in an increasingly diverse, globalizing world. Based on over 400 interviews with young adults from different racial, class and regional backgrounds, the chapters provide an in-depth look at how young Americans understand their lives and the challenges, risks, and opportunities they experience as they move into adulthood during changing and uncertain times. Chapters focus on how these young adults understand markers of adulthood such as leaving home, launching careers, and forming relationships, as well as issues particularly salient to them including politics, diversity, identity, and acculturation.

Contributors are: Pamela Aronson, Arturo Baiocchi, Erika Busse, Patrick J. Carr, Laura Fischer, Constance A. Flanagan, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Douglas Hartmann, Maria Kefalas, Vivian Louie, Charlie V. Morgan, Jeylan Mortimer, Laura Napolitano, Lisa Anh Nguyen, Wayne Osgood, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Sarah Shannon, Teresa Toguchi Swartz, and Christopher Uggen.

Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, San Diego is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on intergenerational relations, families, race and ethnicity, Asian Americans, youth and young adulthood. Douglas Hartmann, Ph.D. (1997), University of California, San Diego, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and studies race, ethnicity, culture, sport, and religion. Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D. (1978), Brandeis University, is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous books and articles on migration, ethnic identities, and transitions to adulthood, including Immigrant America: A Portrait (with Alejandro Portes, University of California Press, 2014).

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

About the Authors

1

1 Introduction: Inside the Diverse Transitions to Adulthood

Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Rubén G. Rumbaut

Part 1: Experiences and Understandings in Core Domains of the Transition to Adulthood
2

2 Family Support in the Transition to Adulthood among Diverse Young Adults in the United States

Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Erika Busse
3

3 Social Contexts and Geographic Location in the Transition to a Four-Year College: Perspectives from Iowa, Minnesota, and New York

Vivian Louie

4 Career Beginnings American-Style: Agency and Floundering in Subjective Perspective

Jeylan T. Mortimer and Laura L. Fischer

5 “Marriage is More than Being Together”: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults

Maria J. Kefalas, Frank F. Furstenberg, Patrick J. Carr and Laura Napolitano

6 Moving Ahead, Drifting, and Scaling Back: Gender and Parenthood in Career Development

Pamela Aronson and Jeylan T. Mortimer

Part 2: Culture, Politics, and Community

7 From Daddy’s Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood

Sarah Shannon, Christopher Uggen and D. Wayne Osgood

8 Connecting with the Body Politic: Civic Engagement in Young Adulthood

Constance A. Flanagan, Patrick J. Carr and Maria Kefalas

9 Collective Identification among Young Adult Americans: Ethnicity, Race, and the Incorporation Experience

Arturo Baiocchi and Douglas Hartmann

10 Crossing Lines and Imagining the Future: Transitions to Adulthood and Mixed Couples in California and New York

Charlie V. Morgan, Rubén G. Rumbaut and Lisa Wang

Part 3: Conclusion

11 The Transition to Adulthood in Qualitative, Comparative Perspective: Insights and Implications from the American Case

i>Douglas Hartmann and Teresa Toguchi Swartz

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Youth in a Globalizing World ; 4
Zusatzinfo	8 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	624 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-33646-X / 900433646X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-33646-9 / 9789004336469
Zustand	Neuware