| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) |
| Contents |
The destandardisation of household formation -- Domesticity, household formation, and youth research -- Risk, individualisation, and the single life -- Living in and leaving the parental home -- Student housing and households -- Shared housing, grown-up style -- Solo living : who wants to live alone? -- Friends and family -- Negotiating current and future partnerships -- Redefining home? -- Conclusion : twenty-somethings and household change -- Appendix 1: The Young Adults and Shared Household Living Project -- Appendix 2: Household profiles |
| Summary |
From Bridget Jones' Diary, through to Friends and The Secret Life of Us, the single young adult is a subject of fascination in contemporary culture. Envied and disapproved of in equal measures by older generations, twenty-somethings have become potent icons of social change. Set against the backdrop of the ongoing destandardisation of household formation, this groundbreaking book explores the context of these changing patterns. Drawing together a welath of research from Europe, North America and Australia, alongside new evidence from a study of non-students living in shared households, the authors argue that contemporary young adults - with graduates in the vanguard of change - are questioning the relative attractiveness of different domestic arrangements during their 20s and as a consequence are redefining the boundaries between 'youth and 'adulthood' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Young adults -- Social conditions
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Single people.
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Households.
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Single Person
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Family Characteristics
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
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Households.
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Single people.
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Young adults -- Social conditions.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cleaver, Elizabeth
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| ISBN |
0230502873 |
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9780230502871 |
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