Constructing Adulthood

PART I: INTRODUCTION1. ‘CONSTRUCTING ADULTHOOD’: AGENCY AND SUBJECTIVITY IN THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD **-** Ross MacmillanPART II: AGENCY: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES2. AGENCY: AN EMPIRICAL MODEL OF AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT **-** Steven Hitlin and Glen H. Elder, Jr.3. ‘GROWING UP ALONE:’ THE ABSENCE OF YOUNG WOMEN’S POSITIVE LIFE MODELS **-** Pamela Aronson4. CHANCE EVENTS IN THE LIFE COURSE **-** Michael J. Shanahan and Erik Porfeli5. SELECTION PROCESSES AND VOCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: **-**A MULTI-METHOD APPROACH Melanie J. Zimmer-Gimbeck and Jeylan Mortimer6. CHILDHOOD DISADVANTAGE, ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, **-**AND PRO-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN EARLY ADULTHOOD J. Brian Brown and Daniel T. LichterPART III: SUBJECTIVITY IN THE LIFE COURSE: ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS7. A SUBJECTIVE APPROACH TO SCHOOLING AND THE **-**TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD Aaron Pallas8. ENTRY INTO ADULTHOOD: ARE ADULT ROLE TRANSITIONS **-**MEANINGFUL MARKERS OF ADULT IDENTITY Janel Benson and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.9. THE ‘INNER SIDE’ OF THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD: HOW **-**YOUNG ADULTS SEE THE PROCESS OF BECOMING AND ADULT Megan Andrew, Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck, Gary Sandefur and Buffy Smith10. THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE **-**OF TRANSITIONING YOUNG ADULTS: FINDINGS FROM A NEWBATTERY OF INTENSIVE INTERVIEWS Doug Hartmann and Teresa Toguchi Swartz11. RELATIVE AGE IN THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD **-** Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Justin A. Berg, and Toni Sirotzki