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Instructors: Carol Stack and Rogers Hall
Course Description
How are transitions between youth and adult status organized as social and cultural processes? Rather than drawing disciplinary lines between life course and social structure, between structure and agency, we will explore transitions located in inequality and poverty, and in the arrangements by which youth transitions to adult status are reproduced. How might we think about agency and contingent participation in cultural practices that produce or reproduce scientific or technical knowledge? How are trajectories between youth/adult negotiated and assembled across sites like family, community, school, play and work? What do the activities involved in being knowledgeable look like accross sites, and to what extent are new ways of being knowledgeable possible in transition? What is the difference between explanation and description in these studies, what difference does that difference make, and what role does that difference play in rendering the interpretation of data? Students' personal researches will be used to set the stage for the class's collaborative efforts.
Readings for the Course
Holland, D., Lachicotte, W., Jr., Skinner, D., and Cain, C (1998). Identity and agency cultural worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Irwin, S. (1995). Rights of Passage: Social change and the transition from youth to adulthood. Cambridge Studies in Work and Social Inequality. London, UK: University College London Press.
Tannock, S. (1999). Stopgap workers: Youth and labor in fastfood and grocery. Dissertation, Stanford University.
Course Enrollment Information: Spring 2000
The spring 2000 CREW seminar meets on Thursdays from 1 to 4 p.m. in room 3515 in Tolman Hall. The course number for the spring semester is EDUC 290D, course control number 22971. The CREW seminar for Fall 2000 is in the process of being organized and developed. All relevant information will be posted on this page as soon as the class is developed.