Publisher's Synopsis
This text provides an integrated account of how adolescents become adults. It emphasizes "normal" social development and integrates recent theory and research, set in the contemporary world of late adolescence and early adulthood. Its flavour is international and uses the very latest population-based and survey results.;Separate chapters deal with basic theoretical viewpoints; health and well-being; relationships and identity; the wider social world of youth subcultures; homelessness; values and morality; gender; and employment and education.
