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"This is an excellent book, with scholarship and writing of the kind that more sociologists ought to be producing. It is exceptional in its longitudinal and qualitative focus on this life-course transition, its fascinating big-picture story, its consistent and understandable plot-line, and its counterintuitive overturning of big cultural stereotypes about life after high school. Clydesdale's observations about stability and managing daily life tasks are fascinating, and provide important contributions to our substantive understanding of this important piece of social life."--Christian Smith, author of Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (Christian Smith Christian Smith 20070102)
"Tim Clydesdale provides a new and powerful vision of America's young people. He opened my eyes to realities I never imagined even though I have been studying the nation's college students for the past twenty five years."--Arthur Levine, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (Arthur Levine )
"Tim Clydesdale has done a remarkable job of getting inside the minds and lives of American teenagers. I know of no other study that provides as rich and up-to-date insights into the decisions teenagers make as they leave high school and enter the work force and college. The stories are riveting. The candid confessions about doubts and anxieties are sobering. The First Year Out is an example of sociological research at its best."--Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, author of The Next Wave: How Young Adults Are Shaping American Religion (Robert Wuthnow )
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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 sexual activity; how they meet the requirements of postsecondary education; and how they cope with new financial expectations. Most of them, we learn, handle the changes well because they make a priority of everyday life. But Clydesdale finds that teens also stow away their identities—religious, racial, political, or otherwise—during this period in exchange for acceptance into mainstream culture. This results in the absence of a long-range purpose for their lives and imposes limits on their desire to understand national politics and global issues, sometimes even affecting the ability to reconstruct their lives when tragedies occur.
The First Year Out is an invaluable resource for anyone caught up in the storm and stress of working with these young adults.
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