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

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511613913

The path adolescents take from childhood to adulthood is a product of social, economic, political, and technological forces. These forces may facilitate youth's preparation to become healthy adults, or they may leave youth unprepared for adulthood. Knowledgeable projections are vital in shaping the agenda for research; for alerting educators, policy makers, and practitioners to new issues; and for formulating thoughtful responses to emerging dilemmas. This book focuses upon the future of adolescence in postindustrial societies. The authors identify some ominous societal changes that will affect youth: unstable job markets, competition for public resources due to an aging population, and widening income gaps between 'information workers' and low-skill workers. But they also observe opportunities created by information technology, innovations in health service delivery and criminal-justice rehabilitation, and the resourcefulness of a new generation. This volume examines these and other macro-structural changes that will impact adolescents' lives and their futures as adults.

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The Changing Adolescent Experience

Societal Trends and the Transition to Adulthood

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Contributors
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

1 - Macrostructural Trends and the Reshaping of Adolescence
pp 1-17

2 - Youth in Aging Societies
pp 18-51

3 - The Transition from School to Work
pp 52-87

4 - Criminal Justice in the Lives of American Adolescents: Choosing the Future
pp 88-128

5 - Adolescent Health Care in the United States: Implications and Projections for the New Millennium
pp 129-174

6 - Youth and Information Technology
pp 175-207

7 - Social Space, the Final Frontier: Adolescents on the Internet
pp 208-249

8 - Approaching Policy for Adolescent Development in the 21st Century
pp 250-272

Index
pp 273-280

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