Changing youth: transition to adulthood in Norway

Conceptualizing Emerging Adulthood: Inspecting the Emperor’s New Clothes?

“…Second, given the few, if any, normative shifts in present‐day life, the search for identity is a process of recurring moratoria and achievements extending over the entire life span (e.g., Hendry & Kloep, 2002). Fauske (1996) noted that if youth can no longer be interpreted as a bridge between childhood and adulthood as two stable statuses (as Arnett proposes), there is an alternative scenario, which is some kind of perpetual youth. Adults behave like young people, undergo cosmetic surgery, return to college, fall in love with new partners, start a different career, have exciting leisure pursuits, follow youth fashions, and even give birth in advanced biological age:…”

Det normalas lockelse – berättelser från marginalen

“…I Finland liksom i de övriga nordiska länderna började man fästa ny uppmärksamhet vid övergången till vuxenlivet under 1990-talet då massarbetslösheten förändrade levnadssituationen och utbildningens betydelse för att säkra övergången till arbetslivet försvagades. Övergången från skola till arbetsliv har blivit mera osäker och inrymmer ofta flera avbrott (Bynner 1997;Wyn & White 1997;Fauske 1996). I europeiskt perspektiv talar man om jo-jo övergångar (Walther et al 2002).…”

Locality and gendered capital of working-class youth

“…In Britain, Scandinavia and Finland several studies show, despite the individualization of young people's transitions, that their class positions are still inherited and processed through the education system, that children follow the paths of their parent's educational choices and other cultural practices, and that social class and cultures continue to be very influential in young people's lives (Fauske, 1996;Furlong and Cartmel, 1997;Furlong et al, 1998;Gordon and Lahelma, 2002;Järvinen, 1999;Kivinen and Rinne, 1995;Skogen, 1998;Vanttaja, 2002).…”