Coming of age in America : the transition to adulthood in the twenty-first century

Publication Data

• Title Coming of age in America : the transition to adulthood in the twenty-first century
• Contributor Mary C. Waters
• Publisher University of California Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Berkeley, Calif.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction / Mary C. Waters, Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas
Straight from the heartland : coming of age in Ellis, Iowa / Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas
Transitions to adulthood in the land of Lake Woebegon / Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Jeylan Mortimer
If you can make it there
: the transition to adulthood in New York City / Jennifer Holdaway
Coming of age in America's finest city : transitions to adulthood among children of immigrants in San Diego / Linda Borgen and Ruben Rumbaut
Becoming adult : meanings and markers for young Americans / Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
Conclusion / Maria J. Kefalas and Patrick J. Carr.

Topics

• Adolescence :: United States :: History :: 21st century
• Parent and teenager :: United States
• Ethnology :: United States
• 015816528

Coming of age in America : the transition to adulthood in the twenty-first century. ISBN 9780520270930. Published by University of California Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.