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Book SynopsisThis 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 âœintergenerational collusionâ that defines modern adulthood.
Trade ReviewPierluca Birindelli has written a theoretically ambitious study on a very fascinating subject: Italian young people who stay at home until 30 and longer. Birindelli tells us what these young adults think and how they see their lives. In doing this he develops new interesting concepts and presents an approach which combines different methods to reveal the deep roots of the phenomenon and the effects it has on the young Italians. We literally enter their rooms and their playful existence—both concretely and theoretically. The book ends in a theory of the Big Game, which opens the way to understand this Italian specificity. This is a groundbreaking book, which will make waves far outside Italy. -- J.P. Roos, professor emeritus of sociology, University of Helsinki, former president of the European Sociological Association
The young are the future. This book, which is a book for young people and for adults, leads us with felicitous sociological imagination into the world to come with its shadows and its lights. -- Gianfranco Bettin Lattes, professor of sociology, University of Florence
The Passage from Youth to Adulthood is all about truth, is based on our true stories, true lives. This book is salt on the wounds of a disoriented and fragile generation, scared to face a world that has become way more difficult than their parents’. Pierluca succeeds in being ironic and passionate at the same time in this original work. -- Daniele Brunori, wine merchant in Guangzhou, China
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
