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Coming of Age in America : the Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waters, Mary C.
Otros Autores: Carr, Patrick J., Kefalas, Maria J., Holdaway, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 pa.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (431 pages)
ISBN:9780520950184
0520950186