Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. I. Biology, social structure, and personality: 2. Period problem and approach. 3. Physical fact and social meaning. 4. Forces in the social structure creating the adolescent youth problem. 5. Personality-its organic foundations and social roots. 6. The experience world and personality formation. 7. Personality stress in adolescent youth social relations. II. Attaining moral maturity: 8. Elements in the problem of attaining moral maturity. 9. Adolescents and youth and the authority pattern of the home. 10. Religion and moral maturity. 11. Failure in attaining moral maturity. III. The transition to marital adulthood: 12. The adolescent and youth in the parental home. 13. Adolescent youth adjustments in the realm of sex. 14. Mate selection and marriage. IV. The struggle for economic adulthood: 15. The bearing of economic forces on the adjustments of adolescents and youth. 16. Finding a place in the work world. 17. Problems of work world adjustments of farm, village and city youths. V. Adolescents and youth in the school: 18. The school and adolescent youth peer group adjustments. 19. Adapting the school program to current needs of adolescents and youths. 20. Increasing educational opportunity for adolescents and youth. 21. New social institutions for adolescents and youth.

Adolescence is the period of life of a man when he is about 12 and extends upto 17 years. The child all of a sudden feels some developments in his or her body. He has sex feelings and tries to develop some kind of aggressiveness.

In youth the individual is more concerned with making his career. All these characteristics and problems of adolescence and youth have been discussed in the book.