Summary
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What is youth? How do we understand youth in its social and cultural context?In this timely and sought-after title, Cieslik and Simpson provide a concise and readily accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of youth studies. Drawing upon the latest research and developments in the field, as well as discussing the fundamental ideas underlying the disciplines as a whole, it offers a comprehensive yet unpacked understanding of youth as a social phenomenon. Illuminating the many abstract and contested concepts within youth studies, this book offers explanations to questions such as: • How might we define youth? • How can we understand young people in relation to their social identities and practices? • What is the relationship between youth and social class? • How do youth cultures develop? • How can we understand youth in a globalized perspective? Key Concepts in Youth Studies stands out as a natural companion for students on youth studies, sociology, criminology and social science programmes. It will also be useful for youth practitioners such as social workers and teachers. Key Concepts in Youth Studies stands out as a natural companion for students on youth studies, sociology, criminology and social science programmes. It will also be useful for practitioners in area of social work and youth and community development.
Youth Transitions
Youth Transitions
Youth transitions remains one of the most prominent and important concepts in the context of youth studies – although a recent challenge to this position will be noted below. In literature focusing on youth transitions made within Western (de)industrialised societies, the concept is used to represent a period for youths of physical and social change that falls between childhood and adulthood in the life course. But there is no consensus in regard to the age at which a youth transition from childhood begins and when it ends with the conferment of adult status. This is because,
The social markers, which used to define the timing of transitions, have lost their normative force in the course of the last decades of the twentieth century… ...
