Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century

by Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas, Jennifer Holdaway

Book Overview

What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places--New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota--to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education, work, marriage, parenthood, and housing. The first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520270932
• ISBN13: 9780520270930
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"