1st Edition

Rights Of Passage Social Change And The Transition From Youth To Adulthood

254 Pages

by Routledge

256 Pages

by Routledge

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First Published in 1995. This original and timely analysis of the transition from youth to adulthood breaks with traditional ideas about the labour market and demographic processes and makes an important and general contribution to understanding social change. Significant developments in the timing and experience of transition have not been satisfactorily addressed, nor understood in relation to... Read more

Chapter 1 Locating transition; Chapter 2 Economic change and the transition from youth to adulthood; Chapter 3 Demographic change and rites of passage: locating “new” life course transitions; Chapter 4 Earnings, gender and reproduction; Chapter 5 Lifestyles, orientations and occupational careers; Chapter 6 Age-related distributive justice; Chapter 7 Conclusion;