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The first year out : understanding American teens after high school / Tim Clydesdale.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Morality and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226110677
  • 0226110672
  • 9780226110653
  • 0226110656
  • 9780226110660
  • 0226110664
  • 1281959383
  • 9781281959386
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: First year out.DDC classification:
  • 373.1/8 22
LOC classification:
  • LB1695.6 .C58 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: an unexpected journey -- Four teens -- Starting points -- Navigating relationships, managing gratifications -- Working for money, spending for fun -- Cognitively sharper, intellectually immune -- Narrowed perspectives, broader implications -- Methodological appendix -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager?s first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in The First Year Out, teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost. Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, Clydesdale reveals how teens settle into manageable patterns of substance use and s.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.

Preface -- Introduction: an unexpected journey -- Four teens -- Starting points -- Navigating relationships, managing gratifications -- Working for money, spending for fun -- Cognitively sharper, intellectually immune -- Narrowed perspectives, broader implications -- Methodological appendix -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

Print version record.

Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager?s first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in The First Year Out, teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost. Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, Clydesdale reveals how teens settle into manageable patterns of substance use and s.

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