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Title: Falling Far From the Tree: Transitions to Adulthood and the Social History of Twentieth Century America

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: Employing the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series of the University of Minnesota, we chronicle the changing timing and duration of transitions to adulthood in the twentieth century. Successive generations of young Americans reinvented the transition to adulthood to accommodate shifts in the economy and the American state. The patterned choices of young people delineate three eras of social history in the twentieth century: the era of reciprocity (19001950), the era of dependence (195070s), and the era of autonomy (1970s-2000). We also explain why African Americans differed from the general trend; they developed distinctive transitions to adulthood in response to persistent inequality.

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Authors: Stanger-Ross, Jordan; Stern, Mark J.; Collins, Christina

Periodical (Full): Social Science History

Issue: 4

Volume: 29

Pages: 625-648

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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