Youth and Society is the most accessible and comprehensive textbook on the sociology of youth. Now in its fourth edition, it has been significantly revised to reflect the latest research in an overview of key debates, research and theories of how young people fit into contemporary society. Led by an expert author team, the new edition provides a comprehensive overview of youth studies. Using both Australian and global examples, the book takes a holistic approach to the concept of youth and how they shape their lives. The new edition comprises four new chapters: Chapter 2: Ways of Knowing, Chapter 6: Place and Mobilities, Chapter 13: Networked Youth and Social Media and Chapter 14: Chemical Cultures. New pedagogical features including key terms and case studies assist students in their learning and engagement.

Youth and Society

Politics & Social Sciences

White, Rob

Wyn, Johanna

Robards, Brady

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Building on the strengths of the highly respected first edition, Youth and Society provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues, research, and theoretical developments in the sociology of youth. A new part, "Theorizing Youth", introduces the many and sometimes conflicting conceptualizations of youth and key theories. Other new chapters explore issues of youth and technology. Enhanced pedagogical features include highlight boxes, additional readings, and expanded chapter exercises, to make the text even more reader friendly.

Youth and Society: Exploring the Social Dynamics of Youth Experience

Youth Health and Welfare meets the demand for a critical, policy and practice-oriented inter-disciplinary perspective on the changing nature of young people's lives and how this affects their health and wellbeing. This book provides a lively, research-based and critical approach to young people's health and wellbeing in contemporary society, drawing on the latest research from a variety of Australian and international sources. Chapters provide an introduction to current debates and theoretical ideas, an analysis of key health and wellbeing issues, the challenges for health and education professionals and the ways in which health and educational approaches frame youth. The focus throughout is on young people's experiences, priorities and attitudes in relation to risk, wellbeing and health in a changing world.

Youth Health and Welfare: The Cultural Politics of Education and Wellbeing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Building on the strengths of the previous editions, Youth and Society provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues, research, and theoretical developments in the sociology of youth. It retains the strong sociological focus that made the previous editions so popular with lecturers and students. Fully revised and updated, the text aims to engage the reader in explorations of leading edge issues confronting youth, youth researchers and policy makers today. The new edition is expanded to include a fifth part: 'Social issues focusing on specific emerging and contemporary youth issues' and comprises three new chapters: chapter 15: Violence and Crime, Chapter 16: Climate Change, and Chapter 17: Complex Lives. The text has been significantly updated to ensure that content is supported by the latest research. New pedagogy helps students to continue their study into the topics at hand, with the inclusion of extension topics and references.

Youth and Society, Third Edition

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s.The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice as related to the 15-25 age group and compares data from the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada. It also argues for the need to develop new research and policy frameworks that are more in tune with the changed conditions of life for Western youth. The book sets out the conceptual basis for a new approach to youth and the practical implications for research, education and youth policy in the new millenium.

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future

Dwyer, Peter

Routledge

Young people grow up in varied circumstances with different priorities and perspectives. While youth does not exist as a single group we need to understand what is happening in young people′s lives. Rethinking Youth challenges the conventional wisdoms surrounding the position and opportunities of young people today and provides a systematic overview of the major perspectives in youth studies.

Rethinking Youth (Studies in Society)

Sage Publications Ltd.

Young people grow up in varied circumstances with different priorities and perspectives. While youth does not exist as a single group we need to understand what is happening in young people′s lives. Rethinking Youth challenges the conventional wisdoms surrounding the position and opportunities of young people today and provides a systematic overview of the major perspectives in youth studies.

Rethinking Youth

Psychology & Counseling

The Making of a Generation: The Children of the 1970s in Adulthood

Secondary school graduates of the late 1980s and early 1990s have found themselves coping with economic insecurity, social change, and workplace restructuring. Drawing on studies that have recorded the lives of young people in two countries for over fifteen years, The Making of a Generation offers unique insight into the hopes, dreams, and trajectories of a generation.Although children born in the 1970s were more educated than ever before, as adults they entered new labour markets that were de-regulated and precarious. Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn discuss the consequences of education and labour policies in Canada and Australia, emphasizing their long-term impacts on health, well-being, and family formation. They conclude that these young adults bore the brunt of policies designed to bring about rapid changes in the nature of work. Despite their modest hopes and aspirations for security, those born in the 1970s became a vanguard generation as they negotiated the significant social and economic transformations of the 1990s.

History

Andres, Lesley

Historical Study & Educational Resources

University of Toronto Press

Secondary school graduates of the late 1980s and early 1990s have found themselves coping with economic insecurity, social change, and workplace restructuring. Drawing on studies that have recorded the lives of young people in two countries for over fifteen years, The Making of a Generation offers unique insight into the hopes, dreams, and trajectories of a generation.
Although children born in the 1970s were more educated than ever before, as adults they entered new labour markets that were de-regulated and precarious. Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn discuss the consequences of education and labour policies in Canada and Australia, emphasizing their long-term impacts on health, well-being, and family formation. They conclude that these young adults bore the brunt of policies designed to bring about rapid changes in the nature of work. Despite their modest hopes and aspirations for security, those born in the 1970s became a vanguard generation as they negotiated the significant social and economic transformations of the 1990s.

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Youth and Society

Youth and Society: Exploring the Social Dynamics of Youth Experience

Youth Health and Welfare: The Cultural Politics of Education and Wellbeing

Youth and Society, Third Edition

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future

Rethinking Youth (Studies in Society)

Rethinking Youth

The Making of a Generation: The Children of the 1970s in Adulthood

The Making of a Generation: The Children of the 1970s in Adulthood