Pierluca Birindelli

Passage from Youth to Adulthood

Narrative and Cultural Thresholds

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "intergenerational collusion" that defines modern adulthood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780761863892
• ISBN-10: 0761863893
• Artikelnr.: 40817547

Autorenporträt

Pierluca Birindelli is a docent in sociology at the University of Helsinki and teaches at Gonzaga University and the International Studies Institute in Florence. Birindelli has published two books in Italian on the passage from youth to adulthood, a monograph about self-identity in late modernity, and articles addressing the themes of individual and collective identity. Join the author on his blog here.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Mapping the land of the young
Chapter 2. The haven of the self-room
Chapter 3. Adolescent youth: passages and rituals for becoming adult
Chapter 4. The culture of dependency
Chapter 5. Escape routes
Chapter 6. The Big Game
Afterword
Bibliography
Index