- Tytuł:
- Emerging Adulthood: An Intersectional Examination of the Changing Life Course
- Autorzy:
- Morimoto, Shauna A.
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1371761.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2019-11-30
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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emerging adulthood
intersectional analysis
life course
adolescence - Opis:
- This article draws on qualitative data of U.S. high school students considering their place in the adult world; the purpose is to investigate Jeffrey Arnett’s (2000) concept of “emerging adulthood” as a new stage of life course. Drawing on interviews and observational data collected around the time when Arnett’s notion of emerging adulthood started to take hold, I use intersectional interpretive lens in order to highlight how race and gender construct emerging adulthood as high school students move out of adolescence. I consider Arnett’s thesis twofold. First, when emerging adulthood is examined intersectionally, young people reveal that – rather than being distinct periods that can simply be prolonged, delayed, or even reached – life stages are fluid and constantly in flux. Second, since efforts to mitigate against uncertain futures characterizes the Millennial generation, I argue that the process of guarding against uncertainty reorders, questions or reconfigures the characteristics and stages that conventionally serve as markers of life course. I conclude that the identity exploration, indecision, and insecurity associated with emerging adulthood can also be understood as related to how the youth reveal and reshape the life course intersectionally.
- Źródło:
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Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej; 2019, 15, 4; 14-33
1733-8069 - Pojawia się w:
- Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki