"contestable adulthood": Variability and disparity in markers for negotiating the transition to adulthood

Youth and Society

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-231

  Horowitz, Ava D ^a   Bromnick, Rachel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Discourse; Emerging adulthood; Essentially contested concepts; Rhetoric; Transition; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648938129     PISSN: 0044118X     EISSN: 15528499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X06296692     Document Type: Article

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