{"product_id":"the-passage-from-youth-to-adulthood-narrative-and-cultural-thresholds-9780761863892","title":"The Passage from Youth to Adulthood Narrative and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierluca 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\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  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","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037880516951,"sku":"9780761863892","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761863892.jpg?v=1750937987","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-passage-from-youth-to-adulthood-narrative-and-cultural-thresholds-9780761863892","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}