ISBN:
0857452509
,
9780857452504
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 329 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.242/1
Keywords:
Young men Cross-cultural studies
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Young men Attitudes
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Young men Social conditions
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Young men
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Young men ; Attitudes
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Young men ; Social conditions
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Cross-cultural studies
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men. Its grounded and comparative empiricism provides the opportunity to move beyond statistics, moral panics, or gender stereotypes in order to explore specific aspects of life course transitions, as well as the similar or divergent barriers or opportunities that young men in different parts of the world face. Yet, effective contextualization and comparison cannot be achieved by looking at male youths in isolation. This volume undertakes to contextualize male youths' circumstances and to learn about their lives, perspectives, and actions, and in turn illuminates the larger structures and processes that mediate the experiences entailed in becoming young men. The situation of male youths provides an important vantage point from which to consider broader social transformations and continuities. By paying careful attention to these contexts, we achieve a better understanding of the current influences encountered and acted upon by young people
Abstract:
Introduction. Pursuing respectable adulthood : social reproduction in times of uncertainty / Vered Amit, Noel Dyck -- "Shining" in public : masculine assertion and anxiety in globalizing Kerala / Ritty A. Lukose -- "There will be a lot of old young men going home": combat and becoming a man in Afghanistan / Anne Irwin -- Institutionalizing an extended youth phase in Chinese society : social class and sex differences in the pursuit of the personal and the pragmatic / William Jankowiak, Robert Moore, Tianshu Pan -- Young men's struggles for adulthood in urban Ethiopia : unemployment, masculinity, and migration / Daniel Mains -- Gendered modernities and traditions : masculinity and nationalism in the Society Islands / Deborah A. Elliston -- Good hearts or big bellies : Dzmak'atsoba and images of masculinity in the Republic of Georgia / Martin Demant Frederiksen -- Being "made" through conflict : masculine hardening in Northern Ireland / Rosellen Roche -- Young men, trouble, and the law: a French case / Susan J. Terrio -- Incarcerable subjects: working-class black and Latino male youths in two California cities / Victor M. Rios, Cesar Rodriguez -- Managing urban disorder? "The street" and its malcontents in the London Borough of Camden / Gary Armstrong, James Rosbrook-Thompson -- Big man system, short life culture: working-class boys and street violence in southeast London / Gillian Evans.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
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