A Study of the"Gap Year"as a New Adulthood Initiation Ceremony:Transitional Rituals,Identity Reconstruction and Subjective Practice
The"gap year"is a new emerging behavior and social mentality in the context of today's social and cultural changes,and has the characteristics of a new adulthood initiation ceremony,while the"transitional ritual"forms its important process mechanism.The"separation ritual"focuses on the isolation from the previous world,whose core is the independent choice made after breaking through the rationalized world.In the coexistence of puzzlement and opportunity as well as that of excitement and melancholy,the important personal decisions with much tension and the new social ritual with much moral significance help the construction of a new self-identi-ty.The"gap year"and the youth's reconstruction of identity are not within the cultural sub-category of"marginal rituals"but a be-havior and social mentality emerging in the context of the contemporary socio-cultural changes,indicating a new construction of self-identity.
"gap year""new adulthood initiation ceremony"transitional ritualself-identitysubjective practice
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