Adulthood as Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12835532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E E Cook (0000-0002-3301-2476, Hokkaido University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-337 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian journal of social science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1568-4849 • E-ISSN: 2212-3857 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685314-04403003 |
| OpenAlex | W2408935331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Before the 1990s, Japanese routes to adulthood appeared to be well structured and strongly linked to the school-to-work transition and other status transitions, such as marriage, parenthood and home ownership. However, with significant changes in employment practices, a weakening of school-to-work transitions, and the rapid increase of the irregular labour market to 38.2 % in 2012, there exists a greater acknowledgement of a diversity of routes into the world of employment and adulthood. Freeters, part-time workers aged between 15–34 who are neither students, nor housewives, have been at the epicentre of these discussions. By drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted since 2007, this paper explores male freeters’ understandings of adulthood through their views on employment, responsibility, meaning and action. It argues that male freeters’ focus on adulthood as constituted through action rather than as the successful result of status transitions is reconfiguring ideas of adulthood in contemporary Japan
Acknowledgement · Action (physics · Diversity (politics · Meaning (existential · Pedagogy · School-to-work transition · Sociology · Transition (genetics · Vocational education · Work (physics · Anthropology · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Studies · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
The meanings of tenshoku for Japanese young regular workers
Planned behaviour during university-to-work transitions
Anomie, gender, and inequality
Singlehood in ‘precarious Japan
Precarious regular workers in Japan
Shakaijin, shadow education, and the entrepreneurial self
Men in aprons versus men in suits
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |