Responsibility and self-respect: how alone do Americans stand?

Article Abstract:

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett's essay focused on conceptions of the transition to adulthood in the contemporary American majority culture. He utilized socio-historical and anthropological studies to provide a context for his work. He concluded that individualistic character qualities of accepting responsibility are the main criteria for the transition to adulthood. It was argued that the emerging adults have the responsibility to discover and become themselves and to establish respectability independently and seriously.

Social change, Culture, Adulthood

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What do life-course norms mean?

Article Abstract:

Survey research can contribute to the analysis of socially consequential transitions in individuals' lives at particular ages. Survey research has the ability to systematically analyze the covariance of the phenomena being studied, specifically the 'relevance' and 'salience' of age in the life course. Moreover, survey research elicits meaning and understanding of how life-course norms can be objective social phenomena.

Research, Life, Life (Philosophy), Life change events, Age, Age (Biology)

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Maybe fewer than three cheers for self-regulation

Article Abstract:

The author disagrees with Carsten Wrosch and Alexandra M. Freund's conclusions that human beings have developed a higher level of self-regulation in response to non-normative events in modern life. He believes that humans have always had to deal with non-normative events but were more likely to depend on religion to help them cope.

United States, Germany, Psychological aspects, Authorship, Social norms, Change (Psychology), Wrosch, Carsten, Freund, Alexandra

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