SOC357H1 Chapter Notes -Parental Investment, Social Capital, Childbirth
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Shanahan pathways to adulthood in changing societies: variability and mechanisms in life. The timing and sequencing of transition markers have changed through historical time, simultaneously reflecting long-term trends and short-term fluctuations between cohorts, as well as variability within cohorts. The modernization of societies is often considered the underlying process driving long- term trends that differentiate successive cohorts, but short-term economic changes and discrete historical events have complicated these trends. In turn, differences within cohorts reflect inequalities due to race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Long-term patterns in transition markers: the modernity argument evaluated. Modernization has promoted both standardization and variability in the transition to adulthood. Empirical evidence suggests that the transition to adulthood has indeed both standardized and diversified, although these trends reflect many historical developments. It may be that the transition to adulthood has become especially diversified since the 1960s. Consistent with these arguments, several strands of evidence suggest that the transition to adulthood has standardized.
