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• Title:
  Emerging Adulthood: An Intersectional Examination of the Changing Life Course
• Creator:
  Morimoto, Shauna A.
• Contributor:
  University of Arkansas, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology and Criminology, 211 Old Main, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA;
  smorimot@uark.edu
• Description:
  This article draws on qualitative data of U.S. high school students considering their place in the adult world; the purpose is to investigate Jeffrey Arnett’s (2000) concept of “emerging adulthood” as a new stage of life course. Drawing on interviews and observational data collected around the time when Arnett’s notion of emerging adulthood started to take hold, I use intersectional interpretive lens in order to highlight how race and gender construct emerging adulthood as high school students move out of adolescence. I consider Arnett’s thesis twofold. First, when emerging adulthood is examined intersectionally, young people reveal that – rather than being distinct periods that can simply be prolonged, delayed, or even reached – life stages are fluid and constantly in flux. Second, since efforts to mitigate against uncertain futures characterizes the Millennial generation, I argue that the process of guarding against uncertainty reorders, questions or reconfigures the characteristics and stages that conventionally serve as markers of life course. I conclude that the identity exploration, indecision, and insecurity associated with emerging adulthood can also be understood as related to how the youth reveal and reshape the life course intersectionally.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.02.18;
  2019.11.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej;4;
  15
• Subject:
  emerging adulthood;
  intersectional analysis;
  life course;
  adolescence
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33705 ;
  1733-8069;
  10.18778/1733-8069.15.4.02
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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