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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pierluca BirindelliPublisher: University Press of America Imprint: University Press of America Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9780761863892ISBN 10: 0761863893 Pages: 186 Publication Date: 26 September 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Mapping the land of the young Chapter 2. The haven of the self-room Chapter 3. Adolescent youth: passages and rituals for becoming adult Chapter 4. The culture of dependency Chapter 5. Escape routes Chapter 6. The Big Game Afterword Bibliography IndexReviewsPierluca Birindelli has written a theoretically ambitious study on a very fascinating subject: Italian young people who stay at home until 30 and longer. Birindelli tells us what these young adults think and how they see their lives. In doing this he develops new interesting concepts and presents an approach which combines different methods to reveal the deep roots of the phenomenon and the effects it has on the young Italians. We literally enter their rooms and their playful existence-both concretely and theoretically. The book ends in a theory of the Big Game, which opens the way to understand this Italian specificity. This is a groundbreaking book, which will make waves far outside Italy. -- J.P. Roos, professor emeritus of sociology, University of Helsinki, former president of the European Sociological Association The young are the future. This book, which is a book for young people and for adults, leads us with felicitous sociological imagination into the world to come with its shadows and its lights. -- Gianfranco Bettin Lattes, professor of sociology, University of Florence The Passage from Youth to Adulthood is all about truth, is based on our true stories, true lives. This book is salt on the wounds of a disoriented and fragile generation, scared to face a world that has become way more difficult than their parents'. Pierluca succeeds in being ironic and passionate at the same time in this original work. -- Daniele Brunori, wine merchant in Guangzhou, China Author InformationPierluca Birindelli is a docent in sociology at the University of Helsinki and teaches at Gonzaga University and the International Studies Institute in Florence. Birindelli has published two books in Italian on the passage from youth to adulthood, a monograph about self-identity in late modernity, and articles addressing the themes of individual and collective identity. Join the author on his blog here. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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