Moving Into Adolescence
From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents reach physical adulthood before they are capable of functioning well in adult social roles. The disjunction between physical capabilities and socially allowed independence and power and the concurrent status ambiguities are viewed as stressful for the adolescent in modern Western society. It has been assumed that the need to disengage from...
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From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents reach physical adulthood before they are capable of functioning well in adult social roles. The disjunction between physical capabilities and socially allowed independence and power and the concurrent status ambiguities are viewed as stressful for the adolescent in modern Western society. It has been assumed that the need to disengage from parents during these years will result in high levels of rebellion and parent-child confl ict. Moving into Adolescence follows students as they make a major life course transition from childhood into early adolescence.
\ From the Publisher“This work is an impressive piece of sociological research and scholarship. The transition to adolescence is studied with an unusually large sample and a pertinent and careful methodology, which results in definitive tests of a number of important developmental hypotheses… [T]he analysis of significant data in this book provides a wealth of information and constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the transition to adolescence within the context of the school.” —Lloyd Lueptow, Journal of Marriage and Family “Moving into Adolescence is not an easy book to read… The book contains nearly 100 pages of tables, more than most readers will want to grapple with. Yet for the student of adolescence or of our educational system, this is required reading.” —John A. Clausen, Contemporary Sociology\ \
