Changing Adolescent Experience - Societal Trends and the Transition to Adulthood

Klappentext Examines changes that are likely to impact adolescents' lives and their futures as adults. Zusammenfassung This book will be of interest to academics! educators! policy-makers! and persons who provide services to youth. It is unique in its focus on how broad social changes will shape adolescents' lives and their futures as adults. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Macrostructural trends and the reshaping of adolescence Jeylan T. Mortimer and Reed Larson; 2. Youth in aging societies Elizabeth Fussell; 3. The transition from school to work Alan C. Kerckhoff; 4. Criminal justice in the lives of American adolescents: choosing the future Frank T. Cullen and John P. Wright; 5. Adolescent health care in the US: implications and projections for the new millennium Elizabeth M. Ozer, Tracy MacDonald and Charles E. Irwin, Jr; 6. Youth and information technology Ronald E. Anderson; 7. Social space, the final frontier: adolescents on the Internet Kate Hellenga; 8. Approaching policy for adolescent development in the twenty-first century James Youniss and Allison J. Ruth.

Product details

• Authors: Reed Larson, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Jeylan T. Larson Mortimer
• Assisted by: Reed W. Larson (Editor), Jeylan T. Mortimer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521891998
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89199-8
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research