DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz

Youth and Society in Flux

Joining Society: Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth
Edited by Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Lauren B. Resnick, Tania Zittoun, and Barbara Burge. The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence, Michael Rutter (Series Ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 342 pp. Cloth, $75.00, Paper, $25.00.

There is no pithy equivalent of “children are our future” that applies to adolescents. Yet adolescents and youth are a society's immediate future and face challenges unlike those of children, such as finding work, coping with peers, and understanding the society they live in. Although becoming an adult is a central problem in all societies, this transition has become more complex and tortuous in the current period of rapid social and technological change.