Rethinking the Youth Phase of the Life-Course: The Case for Emerging Adulthood?

Autor/in	Bynner, John
Titel	Rethinking the Youth Phase of the Life-Course: The Case for Emerging Adulthood?
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth Studies, 8 (2005) 4, S.367-384 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-6261
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Global Approach; Social Theories; Young Adults; Adolescents; Social Change; Developmental Psychology; Longitudinal Studies; Developmental Stages; Technological Advancement; Foreign Countries; Social Differences; Comparative Analysis; Social Structure; Human Capital; Social Indicators; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Globales Denken; Gesellschaftstheorie; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sozialer Wandel; Entwicklungspsychologie; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Ausland; Sozialer Unterschied; Sozialstruktur; Humankapital; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Großbritannien
Abstract	A whole flurry of new thinking and research about young people in the USA has been stimulated by Jeffery Arnett's theory of 'Emerging Adulthood'. This argues for recognition of a new stage of the life-course between adolescence and adulthood reflecting the extension of youth transitions to independence brought about by globalization and technological change. Although the perspective aligns with developmental psychology's conception of "stages of development", its appeal extends across the social science disciplines and policy domains. However, the rich theorizing of the same manifestations of social change in young people's experience in European Youth Studies appear to have been largely overlooked by Arnett. This paper attempts to redress this balance by drawing into the framework of Emerging Adulthood a wider set of theoretical concerns with structural factors and exclusion mechanisms to which (late) modern youth are subjected. The argument is exemplified by age-30 cohort comparisons across three British longitudinal studies starting in 1946, 1958 and 1970, demonstrating rising opportunities accompanied by increased social inequality. The paper concludes with a re-appraisal of the concept of youth as a phase of the late modern life-course in which the properties Arnett attributes to Emergent Adulthood are just one significant feature. (Contains 4 figures, 1 table and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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