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Culture: Opening Paths, Creating Detours

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Emerging and Young Adulthood

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Culture influences the navigation process during emerging and young adulthood, including its duration. Not a monolithic or static entity, global, and local cultural developments affect emerging and young adults differently, as they interact with individual characteristics and societal and family norms. Mandated religious obligations, in some cultures, immerse emerging or young adults to its precepts, in a time when others are in search of their own spiritual and relational values. In some cultures, military service encourages the development of culturally sanctioned qualities as it limits the expression of others, while the dictates of filial piety are accepted by many emerging and young adults as an expression of their traditional cultural ties, even as they baffle their friends in the host culture. The influence of class was identified as primary, especially by the less affluent cohort. It was identified as an influence on career direction. Economic constraints were seen to limit experimental approaches to career and tended to result in more conservative life-path choices in the less affluent cohort.

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Konstam, V. (2015). Culture: Opening Paths, Creating Detours. In: Emerging and Young Adulthood. Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11301-2_3

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