Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables About the Authors

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1 Introduction: Inside the Diverse Transitions to Adulthood   Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Rubén G. Rumbaut Part 1: Experiences and Understandings in Core Domains of the Transition to Adulthood

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2 Family Support in the Transition to Adulthood among Diverse Young Adults in the United States   Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Erika Busse 3

3 Social Contexts and Geographic Location in the Transition to a Four-Year College: Perspectives from Iowa, Minnesota, and New York   Vivian Louie

4 Career Beginnings American-Style: Agency and Floundering in Subjective Perspective   Jeylan T. Mortimer and Laura L. Fischer

5 Marriage is More than Being Together: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults   Maria J. Kefalas, Frank F. Furstenberg, Patrick J. Carr and Laura Napolitano

6 Moving Ahead, Drifting, and Scaling Back: Gender and Parenthood in Career Development   Pamela Aronson and Jeylan T. Mortimer Part 2: Culture, Politics, and Community

7 From Daddy's Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood   Sarah Shannon, Christopher Uggen and D. Wayne Osgood

8 Connecting with the Body Politic: Civic Engagement in Young Adulthood   Constance A. Flanagan, Patrick J. Carr and Maria Kefalas

9 Collective Identification among Young Adult Americans: Ethnicity, Race, and the Incorporation Experience   Arturo Baiocchi and Douglas Hartmann

10 Crossing Lines and Imagining the Future: Transitions to Adulthood and Mixed Couples in California and New York   Charlie V. Morgan, Rubén G. Rumbaut and Lisa Wang Part 3: Conclusion

11 The Transition to Adulthood in Qualitative, Comparative Perspective: Insights and Implications from the American Case  iDouglas Hartmann and Teresa Toguchi Swartz Index