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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 | |