The Passage from Youth to Adulthood: Narrative and
Cultural Thresholds is an ethnographic study that
examines the plight of Italian youth whose passage to adulthood is thwarted by
an array of structural and cultural obstacles. Deficiencies in the Italian educational
system, the absence of bridges from school to work, youth unemployment, and
escalating costs of living make it difficult for many young
people to acquire the traditional markers of adulthood. In addition to these
structural problems, Birindelli identifies a ‘‘culture of collusion’’ in which
parents and children cooperate in extending youth dependency well beyond what
prior generations would consider
normal…
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Mortimer, Jeylan
T. “The Passage from Youth to Adulthood: Narrative and Cultural Thresholds.” Contemporary
Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 45.2 (2016): 147-149.
