Are there still any social rites-of-passages in the modern world?

Answer 1

Yes. The bar-mitsvah, the quincenera, the debutante ball, the church wedding to name a few.

Answer 2

If by the modern world you mean some very small part of the world that America considers civilized, then yes, there are many, including at least one integrated into every subculture within.

Answer 3

in the modern world for most kids its having drivers licence and owning a car and driving it to show to your friends.

Answer 4

High School graduation and a Driver's license

Answer 5

At which moment in your life are you beyond an others consciousness. Is only religion and their notions and beliefs what constitutes personal achievement and accomplishment?
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Erickson

Stage One Oral-Sensory: from birth to one, trust vs. mistrust, feeding;
Stage Two Muscular-Anal: 1-3 years, autonomy vs. doubt, toilet training;
Stage Three Locomotor: 3-6 years, initiative vs. inadequacy, independence;
Stage Four Latency: 6-12 years, industry vs. inferiority, school;
Stage Five Adolescence: 12-18 years, identity vs. confusion, peer relationships;
Stage Six Young Adulthood: 18-40 years, intimacy vs. isolation, love relationships;
Stage Seven Middle Adulthood: 40-65 years, generativity vs. stagnation, parenting;
Stage Eight Maturity: 65 years until death, integrity vs. despair, acceptance of one's life.
The Erikson life-stage virtues, in the order of the stages in which they may be acquired, are:

hope
will
purpose
competence
fidelity
love (in intimate relationships, work and family)
caring
wisdom

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html

Stages of Cognitive Development. Piaget identified four stages in cognitive development:

Sensorimotor stage (Infancy). In this period (which has 6 stages), intelligence is demonstrated through motor activity without the use of symbols. Knowledge of the world is limited (but developing) because its based on physical interactions / experiences. Children acquire object permanence at about 7 months of age (memory). Physical development (mobility) allows the child to begin developing new intellectual abilities. Some symbollic (language) abilities are developed at the end of this stage.
Pre-operational stage (Toddler and Early Childhood). In this period (which has two substages), intelligence is demonstrated through the use of symbols, language use matures, and memory and imagination are developed, but thinking is done in a nonlogical, nonreversable manner. Egocentric thinking predominates
Concrete operational stage (Elementary and early adolescence). In this stage (characterized by 7 types of conservation: number, length, liquid, mass, weight, area, volume), intelligence is demonstrated through logical and systematic manipulation of symbols related to concrete objects. Operational thinking develops (mental actions that are reversible). Egocentric thought diminishes.
Formal operational stage (Adolescence and adulthood). In this stage, intelligence is demonstrated through the logical use of symbols related to abstract concepts. Early in the period there is a return to egocentric thought. Only 35% of high school graduates in industrialized countries obtain formal operations; many people do not think formally during adulthood.

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html


Now you see how valuable parental acknowledgement and reacknowledgement is.

Answer 6

getting drunk for the first time, losing your virginity, smoking weed for the first time, going away to college and being away from home, surviving your 21st birthday and other stuff like that. that's our society. wow, the times they are a changin'

Answer 7

losing your virginity!
18th birthday.
driver's lisense.
getting married or divorced, for that matter.
moving out of your parent's home.
-- just to name a few.

Answer 8

Your 18th birthday.