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Contemporary Adulthood J. Burnett

Contemporary Adulthood By J. Burnett

Contemporary Adulthood by J. Burnett


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Anew approach which problematizes the category of contemporary adulthood, this book includes chapters on demographic change; becoming thirty-something; graduates and work; mental health and happiness; new configurations of masculinity; the sexual lifecourse; political beliefs in adulthood; and adulthood and the housing market.

Contemporary Adulthood Summary

Contemporary Adulthood: Calendars, Cartographies and Constructions by J. Burnett

Anew approach which problematizes the category of contemporary adulthood, this book includes chapters on demographic change; becoming thirty-something; graduates and work; mental health and happiness; new configurations of masculinity; the sexual lifecourse; political beliefs in adulthood; and adulthood and the housing market.

About J. Burnett

HARRY BLATTERER is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia RACHEL BROOKS is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey, UK JOANNE BROWN is Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Southampton, UK JUDITH BURNETT is Dean of the School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications at the University of Wolverhampton, UK KATE CRAWFORD is Lecturer in the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney, Australia MARK DAVIS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Monash Univesity, Australia ALEXANDRA HALL is Research Associate at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK JENNY HOCKEY is Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University, UK BARBARA KORNER is Lecturer in the Social Sciences at the Open University, UK ROSEMARY MCKECHNIE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Bath Spa University, UK VICTORIA ROBINSON is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Problem of Contemporary Adulthood: Calendars, Cartographies, and Constructions; J. Burnett Generations, Modernity and the Problem of Contemporary Adulthood; H.Blatterer The Calendar of Life: The Context of Social Trends for Understanding Contemporary Adulthood; J.Burnett Buying in: On Adulthood and Home Ownership Ideologies; K.Crawford Young Graduates and Understandings of Adulthood; R.Brooks Thirtysomething and Contemporary Adulthood; J.Burnett Chronologising Adulthood/Configuring Masculinity; J.Hockey, V.Robinson & A.Hall Surveys, Citizenship and the Sexual Lifecourse; M.Davis Life Begins At...? Psychological Reflections on Mental Health and Adulthood; J.Brown Growing Up Through Activism: Adult Identities and the Maturing of Standpoints; R.McKechnie & B.Korner Bibliography

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NPB9780230581036
9780230581036
023058103X
Contemporary Adulthood: Calendars, Cartographies and Constructions by J. Burnett
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2010-04-29
173
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