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The Passage from Youth to Adulthood
Narrative and Cultural Thresholds
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2014
Summary
The Passage from Youth to Adulthood explores a society unanchored from culturally endorsed rites of passage, in which young people and adults appear to build their identities within a culture of dependency. In this book, author Pierluca Birindelli interviews Italian young adults still living with their parents, and focuses on how those individuals view the bedroom and the objects therein. From there, he analyzes self-narrations and longer autobiographies written by university students, measuring his impressions against sociological, psychological, and anthropological literature. Birindelli explores the paradigm of what he calls “intergenerational collusion,” in which fathers and sons are playing to the same script, heedless of the common good, the other, and the future. Finally, integrating the experience of young Americans abroad sparks transcultural reflections about the concept of play and the authenticity of social performance.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6389-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-6390-8
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
177
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Acknowledgments No access
1.1 The Idea No access
1.2 Sociological Theory, Practice and Imagination No access
1.3 Researching the Young People in Their Bedrooms No access
1.4 Narrative Concepts and Method No access
1.5 Epiphanies No access
1.6 Telling Stories No access
1.7 Growing Up through Autobiography No access
1.8 New Paths through the Territories of Youth Identity No access
1.9 Potential Areas for Further Research: A New Method? No access
Notes No access
2.1 The Private Sphere, Its Objects and the Narration of the Self No access
2.2 The Home within a Home and Suspension of the Will No access
2.3 The Autobiographical Dwelling: The “Hub” of a Physical and Conceptual Space No access
2.4 The Hermetic Space No access
2.5 The Fortress of the Self No access
2.6 The Bedroom and Biographical Time: Tying and Unravelling No access
2.7 The Memory-Objects No access
2.8 Projection, Empathy, Representation, Transference: Communicating with Yourself No access
2.9 Types and Functions of the Objects No access
2.10 Objects, Placement and Stories: Some Examples No access
2.11 A Solid World or a House of Cards? From the Transitional Object to the Fetish No access
2.12 The Space-time for Erfahrung: Polar Opposites No access
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3.1 The Prolongation of the Youth Phase No access
3.2 Anthropological Thresholds: Rites of Passage No access
3.3 Sociological Thresholds: Eternal Adolescents No access
3.4 The Psycho-social Prospects: Independence and Recognition No access
3.5 Being Young and Being Adult No access
3.6 Unpretentious Awareness and Juvenility: Two Witness Statements No access
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4.1 Worlds at Arm’s Reach and Non-involvement in Public Life No access
4.2 Mistrust of Institutions: A School without Examples No access
4.3 Education and Work: The Lack of Real Challenges No access
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5.1 Belonging to a Generation No access
5.2 The Courage to Tell Your Story No access
5.3 Sheltered Journeys: The Eternal and Cocooned Return No access
5.4 Fathers and Sons: Intergenerational Collusion No access
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6.1 Passages and Boundaries: Liminal and Limbic Status No access
6.2 Young Americans Playing Abroad No access
6.3 The Experience of Travel No access
6.4 Travel Simulacra and the Political Economy of Carpe Diem No access
