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The world of adolescence 年青人的世界 CHRISTIAN SMITH is a well-known sociologist of religion. That alone may deter the more deeplysecular from reading his book, Lost in Transition, which explores the moral map of 18- to 23-year-olds in America. This would be a shame, as it is intensely and uncomfortably thought-provoking. It deserves consideration on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly from theparents of that generation. 克里斯汀史密斯是一位著名的宗教社会学家。仅仅因为那样也许会使更深入世俗的人们不读他写的书迷失于转型之途，这本书探究18至23岁的美国人的道德地图。这将是一件憾事，因为这本书会引起人们强烈地、不自在地深思。而且也值得大西洋两岸的人们思考，尤其是那一代人的父母。 A note about method first. Mr Smith and his co-writers have been following the emerging adults on whom this study is based since 2001,when they were just young sprats. The authors have repeatedly surveyed a nationallyrepresentative sample of over 3,000 and personally interviewed a smaller number. This bookrelies primarily on intensive interviews in 2008 with 230 of the original group, many of themthen in college or university. 本书的首页是关于调查方法的注释。自2001年以来，史密斯先生和他的合著者一直研究新一代的成年人，当时他们两位也仅仅是初出茅庐的小子。他们两位作者反复调查3000多个全国有代表性的人物，还亲自访问一些人。这本书主要信赖2008年访问的230个最初的小组，大部分人当时还在学院或大学就读。 | 
