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What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota - to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country.

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"[The book's] tremendously rich portrait of young people's pathways provides keen insight into the intricacies, twists, and turns in the process of becoming adult." American Journal Of Sociology "Impressive... An excellent tool for discussions about adulthood and the road to adulthood for young adults." -- Hennie Weiss Metapsychology Online Review

Table of Contents
Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Mary C. Waters, Patrick J. Carr, and Maria J. Kefalas

1. Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa
Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas

2. Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon
Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann, and Jeylan T. Mortimer

3. If You Can Make It There . . . : The Transition to Adulthood in New York City
Jennifer Holdaway

4. Coming of Age in “America’s Finest City”: Transitions to Adulthood Among Children
of Immigrants in San Diego
Linda Borgen and Rubén G. Rumbaut

5. Becoming Adult: Meanings and Markers for Young Americans
Richard A. Settersten Jr.

6. Conclusion
Maria J. Kefalas and Patrick J. Carr

Appendix: Methods
References
Contributors
Index

Coming of Age in America

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 20 September 2011
      ISBN-13 9780520270930
      978-0520270930
      ISBN-10 0520270932
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      Age groups: adults

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota - to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country.

      Trade Review
      "[The book's] tremendously rich portrait of young people's pathways provides keen insight into the intricacies, twists, and turns in the process of becoming adult." American Journal Of Sociology "Impressive... An excellent tool for discussions about adulthood and the road to adulthood for young adults." -- Hennie Weiss Metapsychology Online Review

      Table of Contents
      Contents

      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction
      Mary C. Waters, Patrick J. Carr, and Maria J. Kefalas

      1. Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa
      Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas

      2. Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon
      Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann, and Jeylan T. Mortimer

      3. If You Can Make It There . . . : The Transition to Adulthood in New York City
      Jennifer Holdaway

      4. Coming of Age in “America’s Finest City”: Transitions to Adulthood Among Children
      of Immigrants in San Diego
      Linda Borgen and Rubén G. Rumbaut

      5. Becoming Adult: Meanings and Markers for Young Americans
      Richard A. Settersten Jr.

      6. Conclusion
      Maria J. Kefalas and Patrick J. Carr

      Appendix: Methods
      References
      Contributors
      Index

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