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Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach (3rd Edition) Review
A rich and timely introduction to the field of adolescent development, this book incorporates culture throughout the world as a key element in understanding development in adolescence and emerging adulthood (ages 18-25). It uses a timely interdisciplinary perspective to present key theories, research and application. Many first person accounts from adolescents across cultures as well as critical thinking questions make this an engaging and interesting introduction to the field of adolescent development. Chapter topics include: biological foundations, cognitive foundations, cultural beliefs, gender, the self, family relationships, friends and peers, dating, love, sexuality, school, work, media, and adolescence and emerging adulthood in the 21st century. For individuals in a variety of fields relating to adolescents. User Submitted Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach (3rd Edition) ReviewsDecember 14, 2008 Terrible Yet another episode in a trend of dreadful textbooks. Semester after semester I deal with these texts and this is the first time I have ever despised a book enough to actually write a review about it. Firstly, although this may simply be a pet peeve of mine, I am tempted - in the spirit of the season - to send the author a Christmas gift: a dictionary, with the word "Redundant" highlighted; and a thesaurus, with the page containing the word "Nevertheless" dog-eared. Aside from that minor nuisance, however, I often find that the author writes with a vindictive attitude. What I mean by this is that I found many instances where he writes something along the lines of "these people believe this, and these people believe that, and this is why they're ALL wrong." In all honesty, he comes across as being bitter that anyone other than him would ever do research on any subject. Also, because of the author's tendency to frequently cite his own research - more so, in fact, than any other one source - this text appears to me to be some sort of feeble attempt to legitimize the author's previous works and thus validate him as a doctor. ("Look here! It's in a text-book, it must be true!") In summary, this textbook is entirely amateurish and - although it may occasionally contain some useful information - many of the pages consist entirely of poorly written filler information which negates any positive effect the good information may have had. My suggestion to any other adolescent development professor out there: write your own book. You'll make some extra money AND validate yourself as a "scientist" (or whatever else you might want to claim - crawl into a breadbox and call yourself a loaf of bread for all I care but DO NOT use this text.) P.S. If you think this review is especially scathing - read this garbage for an entire semester and then you may judge. September 4, 2008 Very excited about the book! The writer of the book, Jeffrey Arnett, is my professor of the class Adolescent Devenlopment. I just had my first class and it was already very impressive. I haven't read the book yet but I have a very high expectance to it. I will comment more towards the end of the semester. For more Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach (3rd Edition) reviews click here.
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