“Contestable Adulthood”

Horowitz, Ava D.; Bromnick, Rachel

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“…Many traditional societies view marriage as the marker signifying the end of adolescence, and many adult privileges are not afforded to an individual until marriage is achieved (Grant & Furstenberg, 2007). In contrast in industrialised societies, where marriage typically happens much later (if at all), achieving financial independence is more readily recognised as the defining marker of adulthood (Horowitz & Bromnick, 2007). Consistent with the teencentric focus of this book, this chapter will focus primarily on understanding the aspects of adolescent development occurring during the teenage years, though some aspects of development beyond these years will also be considered.…”

Section: Defining Adolescencementioning

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Understanding Adolescents

Bell¹

2016

Perspectives on HCI Research With Teenagers

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Adolescent development is complex; involving the interaction between fundamental biological and cognitive developmental processes, and the unique environment inhabited by the adolescent. This chapter draws on contemporary research from the social and behavioural sciences to outline the key features of the biological and cognitive changes occurring during adolescence, which serve to differentiate adolescents from both children and adults. The contextual factors that influence the developmental trajectory of adolescents will be discussed, with particular emphasis on the role of media and technology, which is becoming an increasingly prominent developmental context and is of particular interest to the readers of this book. The chapter also discusses prominent themes in adolescent development that are product of this interaction between developmental processes and the environment, including identity, sexuality, intimacy, autonomy and achievement. It ends with a discussion of how this knowledge may be utilised by researchers working in the field of Teen-CI to inform their approach to working with adolescents.

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Section: Defining Adolescencementioning

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Understanding Adolescents

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2016

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“…Transitions are considered not only to be de-standardised but precarious and reversible with, for example, individuals entering and re-entering education, employment, and the parental home at different times. This "yo-yo-isation" between disconnected episodes means that individuals, particularly young adults, must manage oscillating shifts between dependency and independence throughout their chosen biographies (Horowitz & Bromnick, 2007). On the other hand, a late modernist position holds that social norms of the timing and sequence of transitions into adulthood, although perhaps more flexible, are arguably conforming and aligned to a distinctly modern structure of the life course.…”

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The weekend: the friend and foe of independent singles

Whillans

2013

Leisure Studies

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The intensification of friendship networks among independent singles is considered "the pleasure offered by the single life" (Beck, 1992, p. 121) and the sociability, rather than domesticity, of this life stage is often emphasised. This paper reports on interviews with independent singles from affluent areas which suggested that accompanying this cultural norm of sociability was the relentless onus of temporal organisation required for interpersonal synchronisation with friends. While not retracting their enjoyment of the single life, respondents expressed a distinct and distinctive sense of risk or vulnerability of spending too much time alone, particularly at the weekend. It is argued that, on the one hand, the relative absence of paid work at the weekend removes the structures that constrain the participation in and the temporal location of joint leisure practices during the week. On the other hand, the absence of employment structuring people's day increases unpredictability about other people's whereabouts, whenabouts, and their availability for shared practices. In response to this dilemmathat is, the weekend as the primary site for sociability met with uncertainty of others availabilityindependent singles responded in a number of ways to secure temporal arrangements with others, safeguarding themselves against the "built-in hazards" (Beck, 1992, p. 121) of being single and finding themselves home alone at the weekend.

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“…The questions in the guide were designed to work in parallel with the narrative interview, both to be familiar and build the confidence of participants, and so that it might be possible to capture how stories have changed over time (see Figure 2). The 'finish these three sentences' icebreaker that sets the tone for the guide is adapted from Horowitz and Bromnick's (2007) youth transitions research as 'open-response stimuli', encouraging participants to discuss multiple, situated understandings of adulthood rather than struggle for a single 'right' answer. Overall, the audio diary guide, and the narrative interview of the first stage of the research, focus on 'tell me about…' questions that provoke talk about personal experiences, rather than 'why' questions that lead to generalisations or intellectualising.…”

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Making Use of Audio Diaries in Research with Young People: Examining Narrative, Participation and Audience

Worth

2009

Sociological Research Online

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This article examines the use of audio diaries as an innovative method for research with young people. As the second stage of a project about visually impaired (VI) young people's transitions to adulthood, young people recorded their experiences and reflections about growing up on microcassette recorders. As a follow-up to a narrative interview, audio diaries allowed the research to get closer to the lives of young people, as participants actively reinterpreted the research questions in the context of their own lives. This article focuses on the utility of audio diaries—detailing the research process and the accessibility of the method for VI young people. Then, using excerpts from a set of twenty-two audio diaries, this article examines how the audio diary technique designed for this project engages with three key issues: how audio diaries capture narrative in distinctive ways; how the method can be employed within a participatory framework; and how audio diaries raise complex issues about the nature of audience.

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“Contestable Adulthood”

Cited by 64 publications

References 31 publications

Understanding Adolescents

Understanding Adolescents

The weekend: the friend and foe of independent singles

Making Use of Audio Diaries in Research with Young People: Examining Narrative, Participation and Audience

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