Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach, Sixth Edition

What you’ll find inside

Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach, Sixth Edition by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett presents adolescent development and emerging adulthood with sustained attention to culture. The sixth edition brings together developmental psychology and related disciplines to help students examine how social setting and historical context shape the experiences of young people. Its cultural lens encourages comparison across communities and makes clear why findings from one group should not automatically be assumed to describe all adolescents.

Topics across the period

The publisher’s sixth-edition materials organize the subject around an introduction to adolescence, biological and cognitive foundations, cultural beliefs, gender and the self, and relationships with family and peers. Further themes include love and sexuality, school, work, media, and problems and resilience. Across these areas, readers can connect individual development with the institutions and expectations around it. The book also gives particular attention to emerging adulthood, a period often defined as ages 18 to 25 and an important focus in Arnett’s work.

How students can use it

The text is suited to coursework in adolescent development, human development and social psychology. Its sequence supports a course that moves from foundational processes to relationships, everyday settings and challenges. Instructors may use the international perspective to prompt discussion about variation within as well as between cultures. Independent readers can use the subject structure to locate a theme of interest while keeping the broader developmental context in view.

Edition, digital format and preview

This listing presents Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach, Sixth Edition as a PDF ebook. Four sample images provide a quick look at the page layout before you choose. Compare the title, author and edition with your course or reference list, and check that the file format works with your reading app. Publisher platform access, courseware, access codes and companion resources are included only when specifically stated with this product.

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