Passage from youth to adulthood : narrative and cultural thresholds /

This book investigates how young adults build their identities in modern society. Looking at narratives from Italian young adults living with their parents and from university students, along with sociological, psychological, and anthropological literature, Pierluca Birindelli explores "interge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Birindelli, Pierluca (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : University Press of America, [2014]
Temas:
Youth development.
Adulthood > Psychological aspects.
Human growth.
Jeunesse > Développement.
Adultes > Psychologie.
Croissance humaine.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Adulthood & Aging.
Adulthood > Psychological aspects
Human growth
Youth development
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Mapping the Land of the Young: Developing a Method
  • 1.1. Idea
  • 1.2. Sociological Theory, Practice and Imagination
  • 1.3. Researching the Young People in Their Bedrooms
  • 1.4. Narrative Concepts and Method
  • 1.5. Epiphanies
  • 1.6. Telling Stories
  • 1.7. Growing Up through Autobiography
  • 1.8. New Paths through the Territories of Youth Identity
  • 1.9. Potential Areas for Further Research: A New Method?
  • Notes
  • 2. Haven of the Self-room
  • 2.1. Private Sphere, Its Objects and the Narration of the Self
  • 2.2. Home within a Home and Suspension of the Will
  • 2.3. Autobiographical Dwelling: The "Hub" of a Physical and Conceptual Space
  • 2.4. Hermetic Space
  • 2.5. Fortress of the Self
  • 2.6. Bedroom and Biographical Time: Tying and Unravelling
  • 2.7. Memory-Objects
  • 2.8. Projection, Empathy, Representation, Transference: Communicating with Yourself
  • 2.9. Types and Functions of the Objects
  • 2.10. Objects, Placement and Stories: Some Examples
  • 2.11. Solid World or a House of Cards? From the Transitional Object to the Fetish
  • 2.12. Space-time for Erfahrung: Polar Opposites
  • Notes
  • 3. Adolescent Youth: Passages and Rituals for Becoming Adult
  • 3.1. Prolongation of the Youth Phase
  • 3.2. Anthropological Thresholds: Rites of Passage
  • 3.3. Sociological Thresholds: Eternal Adolescents
  • 3.4. Psycho-social Prospects: Independence and Recognition
  • 3.5. Being Young and Being Adult
  • 3.6. Unpretentious Awareness and Juvenility: Two Witness Statements
  • Notes
  • 4. Culture of Dependency
  • 4.1. Worlds at Arm's Reach and Non-involvement in Public Life
  • 4.2. Mistrust of Institutions: A School without Examples
  • 4.3. Education and Work: The Lack of Real Challenges
  • Notes
  • 5. Escape Routes
  • 5.1. Belonging to a Generation
  • 5.2. Courage to Tell Your Story
  • 5.3. Sheltered Journeys: The Eternal and Cocooned Return
  • 5.4. Fathers and Sons: Intergenerational Collusion
  • Notes
  • 6. Big Game
  • 6.1. Passages and Boundaries: Liminal and Limbic Status
  • 6.2. Young Americans Playing Abroad
  • 6.3. Experience of Travel
  • 6.4. Travel Simulacra and the Political Economy of Carpe Diem
  • 6.5. Liminal and Liminoid Experiences
  • 6.6. Playing as Reality
  • 6.7. Origins of the Big "Me" Game
  • Notes.

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