Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach
Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach Books
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A rich and timely introduction to the field of youthful development, this book incorporates culture throughout the world as a key element in understanding development in adolescence and emerging adulthood (ages 18-25). It uses a timely interdisciplinary perspective to bestow key theories, research and application. Many first person accounts from adolescents across cultures as well as critical thought questions make this an engaging and fascinating introduction to the field of youthful development.
Chapter topics include: biological foundations, cognitive foundations, cultural beliefs, gender, the self, family relationships, friends and peers, dating, like, sexuality, school, work, media, and adolescence and emerging adulthood in the 21st century.
For individuals in a variety of fields relating to adolescents.
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The novelist of the book, Jeffrey Arnett, is my professor of the class Youthful Devenlopment. I just had my first class and it was already very impressive. I haven’t read the book yet but I have a very high expectance to it. I will comment more towards the end of the semester.
Rating: 5 / 5
The text has an array of details referring to youthful development. Not a theme I delight in reading about… but if you do than I highly urge it!
Rating: 3 / 5
I recieved this item quite quickly and just in time for class and amazingly I loved the book as much as a student can possibly delight in a textbook.
Rating: 4 / 5
Yet another episode in a trend of dreadful textbooks. Semester after semester I deal with these texts and this is the first time I have ever despised a book enough to really write a review about it.
Firstly, although this may simply be a pet peeve of mine, I am tempted – in the spirit of the season – to send the author a Christmas gift: a dictionary, with the word “Redundant” highlighted; and a thesaurus, with the page containing the word “Nevertheless” dog-eared.
Aside from that minor nuisance, but, I often find that the author writes with a vindictive attitude. What I mean by this is that I found many instances where he writes something by the side of the lines of “these people judge this, and these people judge that, and this is why they’re ALL incorrect.” In all honesty, he comes across as being bitter that anyone other than him would ever do research on any theme.
Also, because of the author’s tendency to frequently cite his own research – more so, in fact, than any other one source – this text appears to me to be some sort of feeble attempt to legitimize the author’s previous works and thus validate him as a doctor. (“Look here! It’s in a text-book, it must be right!”)
In summary, this textbook is entirely amateurish and – although it may occasionally control some helpful in rank – many of the pages consist entirely of poorly written filler in rank which negates any positive effect the excellent in rank may have had.
My suggestion to any other youthful development professor out there: write your own book. You’ll make some extra money AND validate yourself as a “scientist” (or whatever else you might want to claim – crawl into a breadbox and call yourself a loaf of bread for all I care but DO NOT use this text.)
P.S. If you reckon this review is especially scathing – read this garbage for an entire semester and then you may judge.
Rating: 2 / 5
I came to write about my disappointment with this text, and I am pleased to see that someone else felt compelled to offer the same feedback. To what has already been said I want to add that for a “cultural approach” this text is alarmingly culturally insensitive. It is written entirely from the White American perspective, and all other cultures and perspectives are lumped together as “other.” Jensen Arnett’s biases and private opinions shine through in every chapter, and I find distressing that this in rank is being passed off to students as legitimate scholarship.
Additionally, the book is out of date. It relies heavily on research conducted in the 1980s and 1990s –these “adolescents and emerging adults” are now in their 40s and 50s.
Rating: 1 / 5