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 attainments | p. 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 |
Index | p. 99 |
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