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Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen (Author)
ISBN: 0199929386     ISBN-13: 9780199929382
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $43.69  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Psychology | Developmental - General
Dewey: 305
LCCN: 2014022210
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 416 pages
 
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In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett has identified the period of emerging adulthood as distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and
the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Arnett's new paradigm has received a surge of scholarly attention due to his book that launched the field, Emerging Adulthood.

On the 10th Anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking work, the second edition of Emerging Adulthood fully updates and expands Arnett's findings and includes brand new chapters on media use, social class issues, and the distinctive problems of this life stage. In spite of the challenges
they face, Arnett explains that emerging adults are particularly skilled at maintaining contradictory emotions--they are confident while being wary, and optimistic in the face of large degrees of uncertainty. Merging stories from the lives of emerging adults themselves with decades of research,
Arnett covers a wide range of topics, including love and sex, relationships with parents, experiences at college and work, and views of what it means to be an adult. He also refutes many of the negative stereotypes about emerging adults today, finding that they are not lazy but remarkably
hard-working in most cases, and not selfish but rather concerned with making a contribution to improving the world. As the nature of American youth and the meaning of adulthood further evolve, Emerging Adulthood will continue to be essential reading for understanding the face of modern America.