The Changing Adolescent Experience: Societal Trends and the Transition to Adulthood

by Jeylan T. Mortimer, Reed W. Larson

Overview

How will the experience of adolescence be affected by key societal phenomena—demographic trends, information technology, environmental degredation, and advances in medicine and genetics? This important volume identifies such ominous changes as unstable job markets and widening income gaps, while at the same time observing opportunities created by information technology and innovations in health service delivery. Knowledgeable projections are vital in shaping research agendas and for alerting educators, policy makers, and practitioners to new issues in adolescent development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521814805
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/05/2002
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)
Lexile:	1520L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

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.