The Changing Adolescent Experience: Societal Trends and the Transition to AdulthoodJeylan T. Mortimer, Reed W. Larson The path adolescents take from childhood to adulthood is a product of social, economic, political, and technological forces. These forces may facilitate youth's preparation to become healthy adults, or they may leave youth unprepared for adulthood. Knowledgeable projections are vital in shaping the agenda for research; for alerting educators, policy makers, and practitioners to new issues; and for formulating thoughtful responses to emerging dilemmas. This book focuses upon the future of adolescence in postindustrial societies. The authors identify some ominous societal changes that will affect youth: unstable job markets, competition for public resources due to an aging population, and widening income gaps between 'information workers' and low-skill workers. But they also observe opportunities created by information technology, innovations in health service delivery and criminal-justice rehabilitation, and the resourcefulness of a new generation. This volume examines these and other macro-structural changes that will impact adolescents' lives and their futures as adults. |
Contents
Macrostructural Trends and the Reshaping of Adolescence | 1 |
Youth in Aging Societies | 18 |
The Transition from School to Work | 52 |
Criminal Justice in the Lives of American Adolescents Choosing the Future | 88 |
Adolescent Health Care in the United States Implications and Projections for the New Millennium | 129 |
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The Changing Adolescent Experience: Societal Trends and the Transition to ... Jeylan T. Mortimer,Reed Larson No preview available - 2002 |
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References to this book
The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen Robert Epstein Limited preview - 2007 |
A New Youth?: Young People, Generations and Family Life Carmen Leccardi,Elisabetta Ruspini No preview available - 2012 |