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Chapter 8
Youth
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Markers of adulthood
• Differing cultural expectations and roles, e.g. – Taking responsibility for care of younger siblings – Taking financial responsibility for oneself
– Entering into a marriage-like (committed) relationship – Going out to work, getting a job
• How do we know we have become an adult?
• Is there a list that we tick?
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Social changes affecting youth
• Relevant changes over several decades
– Fewer full time jobs available for school leavers – Youth have greater awareness of the wider world – More youth engagement in part time work
– Later school leaving age
• Implications:
– Lengthening period of economic dependency – Expectation of tertiary education
– Starting a career begins much later
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‘Emerging’ adulthood: Arnett
• 18-25 years
• Characterised by experimentation and exploration
• ‘In between’: not adolescence, and not quite adulthood
• Moving house a lot
• Holding off commitment to: – Long-term relationship
– Paid work career
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Is there a ‘transition’to adulthood?
• ‘Transition’ implies a psychological shift through instability to stability
• Is the shift about individual psychology, or inter-generational (historical) expectations?
• Is it about the complexities of adapting to social changes?
• Are the issues more about individual adaptations, or more about what society enables?
• Are young people in this period incapable of taking individual responsibility?
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