Adolescence, Post-Adolescence, Youth: Revised Interpretations

Adolescence, Post-Adolescence, Youth: Revised Interpretations

The terms adolescence, post-adolescence, and youth are often employed as nearsynonyms to designate the life period between childhood and adulthood. In fact, the terms are linked to distinct sociological interpretations, though these may be only implicit. This article aims to clarify those interpret...

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Yazar: Galland, Olivier
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spelling cairn-RFS_445_0163RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2003-5-page-163?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.445.0163 Adolescence, Post-Adolescence, Youth: Revised Interpretations Galland, Olivier2003 fre Revue française de sociologie | 44 | 5 | 2003-12-15 | p. 163-188 | 0035-2969 RFS_44588 The terms adolescence, post-adolescence, and youth are often employed as nearsynonyms to designate the life period between childhood and adulthood. In fact, the terms are linked to distinct sociological interpretations, though these may be only implicit. This article aims to clarify those interpretations, first on the basis of an article by Parsons, who, in 1942 proposed one of the first sociological analyses of “youth culture”, defining adolescence as a culture of irresponsibility. The theme of “post-adolescence” developed later out of this idea. Other studies, on the contrary, sought to establish a radical distinction between adolescence and youth, the latter defined as “a new life period”. Critical review of this thesis leads to revising it on two important points. First, though “youth” is distinct from adolescence as defined by Parsons, it does not constitute, or not as fully as had been believed, a clearly separate life phase relative to those preceding and following it; indeed, the primary characteristic of adolescence is that it establishes continuity between those phases. Second, international comparative studies conducted in the last few years show extraordinary countrytocountry variation in the cultural dispositions and institutional arrangements that organize this life phase.Cairn free access
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description The terms adolescence, post-adolescence, and youth are often employed as nearsynonyms to designate the life period between childhood and adulthood. In fact, the terms are linked to distinct sociological interpretations, though these may be only implicit. This article aims to clarify those interpretations, first on the basis of an article by Parsons, who, in 1942 proposed one of the first sociological analyses of “youth culture”, defining adolescence as a culture of irresponsibility. The theme of “post-adolescence” developed later out of this idea. Other studies, on the contrary, sought to establish a radical distinction between adolescence and youth, the latter defined as “a new life period”. Critical review of this thesis leads to revising it on two important points. First, though “youth” is distinct from adolescence as defined by Parsons, it does not constitute, or not as fully as had been believed, a clearly separate life phase relative to those preceding and following it; indeed, the primary characteristic of adolescence is that it establishes continuity between those phases. Second, international comparative studies conducted in the last few years show extraordinary countrytocountry variation in the cultural dispositions and institutional arrangements that organize this life phase.
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Adolescence, Post-Adolescence, Youth: Revised Interpretations
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title Adolescence, Post-Adolescence, Youth: Revised Interpretations
title_short Adolescence, Post-Adolescence, Youth: Revised Interpretations
title_full Adolescence, Post-Adolescence, Youth: Revised Interpretations
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title_full_unstemmed Adolescence, Post-Adolescence, Youth: Revised Interpretations
title_sort adolescence, post-adolescence, youth: revised interpretations
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