Youth Studies and Generations
Youth Studies and Generations

Author: Vitor Sérgio Ferreira

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2020-03-25

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 303928326X

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There is currently much discourse about generations in the public sphere. A sequence of letters conflates generations and age cohorts born in the last few decades (generation “X”, “Y” or “Z”) as well as multiple categories are used to describe today’s young people as a generation that is distinct from its predecessors. Despite the popularity of generational labels in media, politics, or even academia, the use of generation as a conceptual tool in youth studies has been controversial. This Special Issue allows readers to better understand the key issues regarding the use of generation as a theoretical concept and/or as a social category in the field of youth studies, shedding light on the controversies, trends, and cautions that go through it.

Youth and Generation
Youth and Generation

Author: Dan Woodman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2014-11-17

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1473911125

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"Woodman and Wyn have produced a text that offers conceptual clarity and real depth on debates in youth studies. The authors skilfully guide us through the main sociological theories on young people and furnish us with sophisticated critiques from which to rethink youth and generation in the contemporary moment." - Professor Anoop Nayak, Newcastle University The promise of youth studies is not in simply showing that class, gender and race continue to influence life chances, but to show how they shape young lives today. Dan Woodman and Johanna Wyn argue that understanding new forms of inequality in a context of increasing social change is a central challenge for youth researchers. Youth and Generation sets an agenda for youth studies building on the concepts of ‘social generation’ and ‘individualisation’ to suggest a framework for thinking about change and inequality in young lives in the emerging Asian Century.

Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations
Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations

Author: Dan Woodman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1137377232

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Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through these prisms and proposes new conceptual foundations for youth studies, capable of bridging the gap between these approaches.

Youth Studies in Transition: Culture, Generation and New Learning Processes
Youth Studies in Transition: Culture, Generation and New Learning Processes

Author: Thomas Johansson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 303003089X

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This book provides an updated and fresh introduction to recent theoretical developments in youth studies. It expands upon these developments and introduces new discussions and perspectives. It presents three central theoretical traditions in youth studies, and explores the possibilities of redefining some of the central concepts, but also of combining different theoretical perspectives. After depicting the theoretical landscape of youth studies, the book explores generations and new subjectivities. Next, it examines subcultures and transitional spaces, mediatization and learning processes. One chapter is set aside for a discussion on the body, the self and habitus, and this is followed by a chapter on postcolonial spaces. Before presenting its conclusions, the book delves into the development of youth studies, theory and everyday life. All together the book taps into what is happening in the everyday lives of young people, and employs a methodology that can be used to create bridges between young people’s voices and experiences on the one hand and societal and cultural transformations on the other.

Generations of Youth
Generations of Youth

Author: Joe Alan Austin

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1998-06

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0814706452

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Brings together recent and new work on youth and youth cultures by social historians and American/cultural studies scholars. Chapters are arranged in chronological order within the 20th century. Subjects include youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s, intercultural dance halls in post-WWII greater Los Angeles, art and activism in the Chicano Movement, the music of Public Enemy, the emergence of a lesbian, bisexual, and gay youth cyberculture, and zines and the making of underground community. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Taking Care of Youth and the Generations
Taking Care of Youth and the Generations

Author: Bernard Stiegler

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0804762724

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The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming industries.

A New Youth?
A New Youth?

Author: Elisabetta Ruspini

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-16

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1317187180

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A New Youth? provides a cross-cultural perspective on the challenges and problems posed by young people's transition to adulthood. The authors address questions such as: What are the experiences of being young in different European countries? What can we learn about the differences of being young in non-European countries? Are young people developing new attitudes towards society? What are the risks associated with the transition of youth to adulthood? Can we identify new attitudes about citizenship? On a more general level, are there experiences and new social meanings associated with youth? The volume is comparative between various European and non-European countries in order to identify the emerging models of transition. These characteristics are connected with broader social, political and cultural changes: changes related to extended education, increasing women's participation in the labour market, changing welfare regimes, as well as changes in political regimes and in the representation and construction of individual identities and biographies, towards an increasing individualization. The work offers critical reflections in the realm of sociology of youth by providing broader understandings of the term 'youth'. The detailed analysis of new forms of marginality and social exclusion among young people offers valuable insight for policy development and political debate.

Youth and the New Adulthood
Youth and the New Adulthood

Author: Johanna Wyn

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-03-30

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9811533652

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This book investigates the life trajectories of Generation X and Y Australians through the 1990s and 2000s. The book defies popular characterizations of members of the ‘precarious generations’ as greedy, narcissistic and self-obsessed, revealing instead that many of the members of these generations struggle to reach the standard of living enjoyed by their parents, value learning highly and are increasingly concerned about the environment and the legacy current generations are leaving for their children and remain optimistic in the face of considerable challenges. Drawing on data from the Life Patterns longitudinal study of Australian youth (an internationally recognized study), the book tells the story of members of these ‘precarious generations’. It examines significant dimensions of young people’s lives across time, comparing how domains such as health and well-being, education, work and relationships intersect to produce the complex outcomes that characterize the lives of members of each of these generations. It also explores the strategies these generations use to make their lives and the ways in which they remain resilient. While the book is based on Australian data, the analysis draws on and contributes to the international literature on young people and social change.

Generation X Goes Global
Generation X Goes Global

Author: Christine Henseler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0415699444

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This volume explores the converging properties of "Generation X" through the fields of literature, media studies, youth culture, popular culture, sociology, philosophy, feminism, and political science. It broadens critics' engagement with the "Generation X" label, tracing the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country's youth from the 1970s well into the twenty-first century.

Generation We
Generation We

Author: Eric H. Greenberg

Publisher: Pachatusan

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0982093101

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The largest generation in history, the Millennial Generation are independent-- politically, socially, and philosophically-- and they are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world.