scholarly journals Stalled de-standardization of partnerships: Case of young people in Serbia

Sociologija ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirjana Bobic
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Qualitative Approaches

The paper tackles reasons for the delay of family formation in contemporary Serbia in the cultural context of pro-familism and standardized life course. Life course perspective is applied as the most suitable one because it fruitfully reconciles structure and agency, demography and sociology. Young people?s transition to adulthood in Serbia is assessed as protracted, somewhat like in Mediterranean and CEE countries (e.g. Slovenia). The empirical evidence is based on various sources of data, combining quantitative (surveys and demographics) and qualitative approaches. The main conclusion is that structural barriers mostly hamper individualization and emancipation of young people from the family of origin, although personal reasons are not negligible (lack of a ?proper partner?). Entry into marriage and start of childbearing are tightly related and compressed processes in a life course of young people in Serbia, thus identifying markers of adulthood. If we expect these groups of population to be the forerunners of (post)modernization, then more social, political support and action is needed for the sake of fostering: empowerment (employment, housing, and development of welfare state), services aimed at institutionalization of parenthood and care work, as well as gender equality in everyday life.

Youth Development in Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Ingrid Schoon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Reciprocal Interactions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players

A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of productive youth development by focusing on variations and changes in the transition to adulthood and emerging identities. The papers address different aspects of an integrative framework for the study of reciprocal multiple person-environment interactions shaping the pathways to adulthood in the contexts of the family, the school, and social relationships with peers and significant others. Interactions between these key players are shaped by their embeddedness in varied neighborhoods and communities, institutional regulations, and social policies, which in turn are influenced by the wider sociohistorical and cultural context. Young people are active agents, and their development is shaped through reciprocal interactions with these contexts; thus, the developing individual both influences and is influenced by those contexts. Relationship quality and engagement in interactions appears to be a fruitful avenue for a better understanding of how young people adjust to and tackle development to productive adulthood.

Interracial Relationships and the Transition to Adulthood

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Joyner ◽  
Grace Kao
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Interracial Relationships ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Interracial Relationship

This study tracks and explains changing patterns of involvement in interracial sexual relationships during the transition to adulthood. Using a life course perspective that highlights the role of historical changes as well as age-graded changes in contexts and relationships, the authors hypothesize that involvement in interracial sexual relationships declines with increasing age among young adults. The analyses are based on some of the first nationally representative surveys to collect detailed information on sexual relationships: the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the National Health and Social Life Survey. Findings from these surveys show that individuals are decreasingly likely to be in an interracial relationship between the ages of 18 and 35 years. They also suggest that the age decline in interracial involvement is a by-product of the transition to marriage in young adulthood and the increasing formation of interracial relationships in recent years. These findings have implications for future research on interracial relationships and family formation.

scholarly journals The Persistent Influence of Socio-Economic Background on Family Formation Pathways and Disadvantage in Young Adulthood

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
Jarl Mooyaart
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis chapter focuses on the linkages between socio-economic background, family formation and economic (dis)advantage and reveals to what extent the influence of parental education on family formation persists over time, i.e. across birth cohorts. The second part of this chapter examines to what extent the influence of socio-economic background persists over the life-course. This part covers: (1) the influence of parental education on union formation over the life-course, and (2) the influence of socio-economic background on income trajectories in young adulthood, after adjusting for the career and family pathways that young adults followed during the transition to adulthood, thereby examining the influence of socio-economic background on income beyond the first stage of young adulthood. This chapter reveals two key insights on the linkages between socio-economic background, family formation and (dis)advantage: (1) Whereas union and family formation patterns have changed across birth cohorts, socio-economic background continues to stratify union and family formation pathways; (2) Although the influence of socio-economic background on family formation and young adults’ economic position decreases throughout young adulthood, socio-economic background continues to have an impact in young adulthood.

scholarly journals Devenir adulte sous contrainte

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 58-73
Author(s):  
Marie Dumollard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
And Control

This article examines the support provided by Quebec’s juvenile justice system for young people classified as offenders who transition to adulthood and who are in open custody. Analyzing life-course narratives of these young people, it highlights the paradoxical nature of penal interventions that, vacillating between support and control, simultaneously enable and constrain the development of autonomy. Faced with restrictive and contradictory institutional regulations, young people adapt their relationship to socio-judicial services by adopting three types of attitude.

scholarly journals How ‘flexible’ are careers in the anticipated life course of young people?

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula K McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Household Level

Bridging literature that addresses the work–family interface and the changing nature of careers, this article examines, from a life course perspective, the extent to which, and why, young people anticipate careers as ‘flexible’. Drawing on 123 interviews with men and women engaged in different post-secondary education pathways in Australia, the study draws attention to the role of gender and to some extent class in shaping careers in a network of social relations. Three dimensions of flexible careers are examined: temporal, that is, through imagined possibilities in various stages of early adulthood; structural, including opportunities and constraints afforded by different industry sectors and workplaces; and relational, in terms of household-level role negotiations. The findings revealed that women continue to adapt their career goals to accommodate care, but that both men’s and women’s careers are shaped by contingencies including household income, home ownership, access to flexible work and ideological expectations of market/family work roles. These contextual dynamics directly impact on decisions in the present. The article underscores the need for an expanded research focus on work and care from a life course perspective in order to promote career flexibility in ways that align with young people’s broader aspirations for gender equality.

Transition to adulthood of refugee and immigrant children in Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1465-1495
Author(s):  
Yoko Yoshida ◽  
Jonathan Amoyaw
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Research Priority ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
Using Data

AbstractThe majority of refugees are children and youth and their integration and life-course transitions are a research priority. This paper examines the timing of refugee children and youths’ entrance into the labour market and family formation (marriage/common law union and parenthood). It does so by examining how admission category, knowledge of a host country’s official languages, and age at arrival shape their transition to adulthood. Using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Immigration Database and Heckman selection estimation, the paper finds minimal variation in refugee children and youths’ entry into the labour market compared to children of other immigrant streams. It also finds that refugee children and youth start forming families at a younger age than children of economic class immigrants, but at an older age than family class children. The analysis also shows limited effects of knowledge of official language prior to arrival while age at arrival has a robust impact on their adulthood transitions. These findings shed light on the unique patterns of life-course transition among refugee children and youth and contribute to a better conceptualization of their experiences relative to children and youth of other immigrants.

scholarly journals Predicting the Timing of Social Transitions from Personal, Social and Socio-Economic Resources of German Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Gläßer ◽  
Wolfgang Lauterbach ◽  
Fred Berger
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Social Transitions ◽  
The Social

Social transitions are characterized by an increased heterogeneity in Western societies. Following the life course perspective, individual agency becomes central in shaping one’s life course. This article examines social transitions of adolescents using individual resource theory to explain differences of the timing of five transitions in partnership and family formation: the first sexual experience, the first intimate relationship, the first cohabitation, the first marriage, and the birth of the first child. Since little is so far known about how individual characteristics interact and influence the social transition to adulthood, we focus on the varying impacts of personal, social and socio-economic resources across the social life course. We use longitudinal data from the German LifE-Study, which focuses on the birth cohort of individuals born between 1965 and 1967. Using event history analysis, we find that the timing of the first sexual experience and first partnership transitions are mainly influenced by personal and social ressources, whereas socio-economic resources offer better explanations for the timing of entering marriage and parenthood. Most striking are the different explanatory models for women and men.

scholarly journals Family Antecedents and Consequences of Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: A Life Course Investigation

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. S. Wickrama ◽  
Rand D. Conger ◽  
Frederick O. Lorenz ◽  
Tony Jung
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Depressive Symptom ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Growth Parameters ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Negative Slope ◽  
The Life Course

Using prospective data from 485 adolescents over a 10-year period, the present study identifies distinct segments of depressive symptom trajectories—a nonsignificant slope during adolescence and a significant negative slope during the transition to adulthood. The study hypothesized that different age-graded life experiences would differentially influence these depressive symptom growth parameters. The findings show that early stressful experiences associated with family-of-origin SES affect the initial level of depressive symptoms. Experiences with early transitional events during adolescence explain variation in the slope of depressive symptoms during the transition to adulthood. The growth parameters of depressive symptoms and an early transition from adolescence to adulthood constrain young adult social status attainment. Consistent with the life-course perspective, family-of-origin adversity is amplified across the life-course by successively contingent adverse circumstances involving life-transition difficulties and poor mental health. The findings also provide evidence for intergenerational transmission of social adversity through health trajectories and social pathways.

Volunteerism during the Transition to Adulthood: A Life Course Perspective

Social Forces ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 1123-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Oesterle ◽  
M. K. Johnson ◽  
J. T. Mortimer
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Life Course Perspective

scholarly journals Entre la escuela y el trabajo. El tránsito a la vida adulta de los jóvenes en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y el Distrito Federal / Between School and Work. The Transition to Adult Life among Young People in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Federal District, Mexico

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina A. Ferraris ◽  
Mario Martínez Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Distrito Federal ◽  
The Life Course

El tránsito a la vida adulta es un proceso que incluye múltiples experiencias que invo­lucran el equilibrio de entrada y salida de diferentes roles. La perspectiva de curso de vida permite estudiar a los sujetos y las familias en el tiempo; asume las transiciones como diversas, socialmente creadas y modeladas por circunstancias históricas y por tradiciones culturales. En esta investigación se analiza el calendario de salida de la escuela y comienzo de la vida laboral de los jóvenes de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires en Argentina y el Distrito Federal en México al comienzo del presente siglo.Abstract:The transition to adulthood is a process that includes several experiences involving a balance between taking on and abandoning various roles. The life course perspective permits the study of subjects and their families over time and assumes transitions as diverse, socially created and shaped by historical circumstances and cultural traditions. This research analyzes the period between the end of school and the start of the working lives of young people from City of Buenos Aires in Argentina and the Federal District in Mexico at the start of this century.

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