Rights of Passage: Social Change and the Transition from Youth to Adulthood

ISBN-13: 9781857284300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 254 str.

Sarah Irwin;Sarah Irwin University of York.; Sarah Irwin

Opis

An examination of age-related processes at a critical point in the life course. It combines a theoretical understanding of labour market and household/demographic processes to offer a new and coherent explanation of change in the transition from youth to adulthood.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Locating transition; Chapter 2 Economic change and the transition from youth to adulthood; Chapter 3 Demographic change and rites of passage: locating “new” life course transitions; Chapter 4 Earnings, gender and reproduction; Chapter 5 Lifestyles, orientations and occupational careers; Chapter 6 Age-related distributive justice; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

O autorze

Sarah Irwin University of Leeds