Coming of Age in America
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Coming of Age in America

Mary C. Waters, Patrick Joseph Carr, Maria Kefalas, Jennifer Ann Holdaway, Mary C. Waters, Patrick Joseph Carr, Maria Kefalas, Jennifer Ann Holdaway

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Coming of Age in America

Mary C. Waters, Patrick Joseph Carr, Maria Kefalas, Jennifer Ann Holdaway, Mary C. Waters, Patrick Joseph Carr, Maria Kefalas, Jennifer Ann Holdaway

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About This Book

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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780520950184
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Discrimination & Race Relations
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Coming of Age in America
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa
  10. 2. Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon
  11. 3. If You Can Make It There . . . : The Transition to Adulthood in New York City
  12. 4. Coming of Age in “America’s Finest City”: Transitions to Adulthood Among Children of Immigrants in San Diego
  13. 5. Becoming Adult: Meanings and Markers for Young Americans
  14. 6. Conclusion
  15. Appendix: Methods
  16. References
  17. Contributors
  18. Index