Aug 17, 2016

The Passage from Youth to Adulthood: Review (by Prof. Jeylan T. Mortimer)

The Passage from Youth to Adulthood: Narrative and Cultural Thresholds is an ethnographic study that examines the plight of Italian youth whose passage to adulthood is thwarted by an array of structural and cultural obstacles. Deficiencies in the Italian educational system, the absence of bridges from school to work, youth unemployment, and escalating costs of living make it difficult for many young people to acquire the traditional markers of adulthood. In addition to these structural problems, Birindelli identifies a ‘‘culture of collusion’’ in which parents and children cooperate in extending youth dependency well beyond what prior generations would consider normal… 
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Mortimer, Jeylan T. “The Passage from Youth to Adulthood: Narrative and Cultural Thresholds.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 45.2 (2016): 147-149.