Youth studies : fundamental issues and debates

Summary: A unique assessment of a burgeoning, interdisciplinary field that can present a confusing picture to novices and experts alike, Youth Studies goes to the heart of fundamental issues and debates, identifying the underlying paradigms and theories. Its lively debate-focused approach engages students to exercise their critical thinking skills.

Record details

ISBN: 9780230368453 (pbk.)
ISBN: 023036845X (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780230368446 (hardback)
ISBN: 0230368441 (hardback)
Physical Description: print
x, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-255) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Threshold Meta-Concepts and the Contours of Youth Studies -- The Youth Question -- Theoretical Approaches to the Youth Question -- Seminal Debates in Youth Studies -- II. The Socio-Economic Influences Structuring the Youth Period -- Education and the Youth Period -- Work and Changing Employment Opportunities -- Family Life and Parental Influence -- The Mediated World and Technological Influences -- III. The Changing Experiences of the Youth Period -- Youth Culture: in whose interests? -- Youth Identity Formation: agentic potentials or inevitable confusion? -- Youth Social Identities: structurally determined or agentically mediated? -- Youth politics: engaged/alternative or disengaged/resistant -- IV. Conclusions: the Future of Youth Studies: Youth Studies' Coming of Age.