
Key concepts in youth studies
Title:
Key concepts in youth studies
Author:
Simpson, Donald.
ISBN:
9781848609846
9781848609853
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Publication Information:
London : SAGE, 2013.
Physical Description:
xx,178 p. ; 21 cm.
Series:
SAGE key concepts
SAGE key concepts.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Foundational Concepts, Issues and Debates -- 1.Defining Youth -- 2.Youth Transitions -- 3.Youth Cultures -- 4.Young People and Social Policy -- 5.Working with Young People -- 6.Researching Youth -- 7.Theorising Youth -- 8.The History of Youth -- 9.Young People, Divisions and Inequality -- 10.Representations of Youth -- Major Concepts, Issues and Debates -- 11.Young People and Leisure -- 12.Youth and Crime -- 13.Youth Training -- 14.Young People and Housing -- 15.Young People, Social Networks and Social Capital -- 16.Young People and Wellbeing -- 17.Young People and Gender -- 18.Young People and Sexualities -- 19.Young People and Education -- 20.Young People and the Body -- 21.Young People and Place -- 22.Young People and Religion -- 23.Young People and Music -- 24.Young People, `Race' and Ethnicities -- 25.Young People and Informal Learning -- 26.Youth and Social Class -- 27.Young People, Politics, Protest and Social Movements --
Contents note continued: 28.Young People, Work and Employment -- 29.Young People and Globalisation -- 30.Young People and Disability -- 31.Young People and Consumption -- 32.The Youth Underclass.
Abstract:
This book is concise and readily accessible introduction to the exciting and interdisciplinary field of youth studies. Drawing upon the latest resaerch and developments, as well as discussing the fundamental ideas underlying the field as a whole, Mark Cieslik and Donald Simpson provide a comprehensive overvivew of the different ways that social science researches have explored the lives of young people.
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