Unmasking Class: How Upwardly Mobile Poor and Working-Class Emerging Adults Negotiate an "Invisible" Identity

Emerging Adulthood

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 314-329

  Radmacher, Kimberley ^a   Azmitia, Margarita ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coping; identity; narrative; peers; resilience; transitions to adulthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898948202     PISSN: 21676968     EISSN: 21676984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2167696813502478     Document Type: Review

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