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9780470293621

Social Class and Transitions to Adulthood: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, No. 119

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470293621

  • ISBN10:

    0470293624

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-03-01
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Table of Contents

The Intersections of Social Class and the Transition to Adulthood
The lengthening transition to adulthood is shaped in important ways by social class, posing difficult challenges for youth, their families, and society.p. 1
Family Capital and the Invisible Transfer of Privilege: Intergenerational Support and Social Class in Early Adulthood
Social class inequalities are reproduced through the differential amount and quality of assistance that parents provide to their children in their transition to adult roles.p. 11
Intimate Relationship Development During the Transition to Adulthood: Differences by Social Class
Social class origin affects the initiation of sexual intimacy, cohabitation, and marriage among mainstream youth, as well as class-graded sexual minorities, military service personnel, and prisoners.p. 25
Breaking Barriers or Locked Out? Class-Based Perceptions and Experiences of Postsecondary Education
First-generation and low-income youth who seek higher education face cumulative objective and subjective disadvantages that operate as a funnel, filtering them out at each successive stage of the attainment process.p. 41
Social Class Background and the School-to-Work Transition
Social class variability in the character of the school-to-work transition results in differential educational and wage attainmentsp. 55
Social Class and the Experience of Work-Family Conflict During the Transition to Adulthood
Social class advantage and disadvantage influence the emergence of work-family conflict in young adulthood and the availability of family-supportive workplace policies that help to ameliorate such conflict.p. 71
Social Class and Workplace Harassment During the Transition to Adulthood
Three case studies illustrate how social class influences harassment in the workplace; vulnerable youth are more likely to be targeted, and they have greater exposure to particular conditions of work.p. 85
Indexp. 99
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