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| Introduction | |
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| The Changing Nature of Maturity | |
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| Maturity Transformed: The Rise of Psychological Adulthood | |
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| Snapshots of Late Modern Society | |
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| A Brief History of Adulthood | |
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| The Personal Testimony of a "Brave New Adult" | |
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| An Academic Search for Adulthood in America | |
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| Gender Divergence and Reconvergence | |
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| The Making and Unmaking of Adulthood in the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Blurred Line between Youth and Adulthood | |
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| Cultural Destructuring and the Decline of Social Markers | |
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| Individualization and the Rise of Psychological Adulthood | |
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| More Freedom and Opportunity, but Who Will Take Care of the Children? | |
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| The Science of Adulthood: How Do I Know When I'm Grown Up? Who's Going to Tell Me? | |
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| Examining the Evidence--In over Our Heads? | |
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| The Social Science of Adulthood | |
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| Going to the Source: Subjective Definitions of Adulthood | |
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| The State of the Civilization: Are Americans Acting More, or Less, Grown Up? | |
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| Adults and Their Progeny: The Blind Leading the Blind? | |
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| The Decline of Civil Society: Cultural Destructuring and Default Individualization | |
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| The Adult of Mass Society | |
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| The Brave New Adult: Models of Maturity for Mass Society | |
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| Problems Faced by the Adult of Mass Society | |
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| Mass Society | |
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| Observations from the Midtwentieth Century | |
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| Mead's Culture and Commitment | |
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| Riesman's Lonely Crowd | |
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| Contemporary Observations | |
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| The Sense of Entitlement in The Culture of Narcissism | |
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| The Half-Adult of The Sibling Society | |
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| The "Relational Self" of Postmodern Society | |
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| The "Relational Voice" from Patriarchal Society | |
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| Transitions to Adulthood in the Late Modern Cafeteria | |
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| The Changing Nature of Identity | |
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| Identity Transformed: The Decline of Authority and Structure | |
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| How Has Identity Been Transformed by Mass Society? | |
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| Understandings of Ego Identity Problems in Mass Society | |
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| Culture and the Identity Crisis: Erik Erikson | |
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| Exploration and Commitment: James Marcia | |
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| Identity Pathways: Ruthellen Josselson | |
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| Clinical Identity Problems in Late Modern Society | |
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| The Borderline Personality Disorder | |
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| Ego Identity Disorders and Problems | |
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| Social Identity Problems: Individualization and the Decline of the Collective | |
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| Learning to Live with Psychological Uncertainty and Risk | |
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| The Brave New Society: Forever Young in a High-Tech World | |
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| A Kinder, Gentler World Order? | |
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| Huxley's Brave New World: How Close Are We to the Ultimate Mass Society? | |
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| How Did Things Get So Confusing? | |
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| The Discovery and Conquest of Youth | |
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| The Rise of Youth Culture and the Fall of Adulthood | |
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| Mass Culture and Arrested Development | |
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| Using the Past to Predict the Future: The Rise of Youthhood and New Trajectories | |
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| Youthhood as a Destination | |
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| Cultural Variation in the Transition to Adulthood | |
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| Youthhood, Adulthood, and Happiness | |
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| Coming to Grips with Late Modernity: New Forms of Maturity and Identity | |
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| Learning to Love an Indefinite Future? | |
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| What Societies of the Future Have to Offer | |
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| The Normality of Narcissism | |
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| A Working Typology of Brave New Adults | |
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| Structure and Agency: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full, and for Whom? | |
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| Charting a Course: The Happiness of Pursuit | |
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| The Seven Deadly Sins: Collectivism and Individualism Reconsidered | |
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| Identity Capital: Agency and Human Potential in Individualistic and Communal Societies | |
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| A Model of Maturity: A Universalizing Consciousness with a Caring Particularism | |
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| Political Vision and Will: Toward Intergenerational Justice | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |