Isolationism in Adolescent Research

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Abstract
The fundamental problem of research in adolescence, given its myriad origins and sources of dissemination, is less an inability to produce substantive research than to perceive the research that exists. The problem, which tends to isolate researchers from one another, is reviewed here in respect to the scope of available scholarship. Five sources of empirical inquiry are considered. They are shown to encompass conventional research paradigms as well as new approaches associated with ecological psychology, youth policy, action programs, and status reviews. Further, a rationale for the breadth of inquiry is suggested in the social and economic circumstances that shape our interpretations of the significance of adolescence.

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