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Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood : New Perspectives and Agendas

ISBN: 9780415445412 | 0415445418
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 9/25/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
Written by leading academics from several countries, this handbook introduces up to date perspectives on a wide range of issues that affect and shape youth and young adulthood

The parameters within which young people live their lives have changed radically. Changes in education and the labour market have led to an increased complexity of the youth phase and to an overall protraction in dependency and transitions. Written by leading academics from several countries, this Handbookintroduces up to date perspectives on... MORE
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Re-conceptualising Youth and Young Adulthood
Changing Contexts, Changing Lives
Youth Transitions in an Age of Uncertainty
Socio-economic Reproduction
Youth and Generation: In the Midst of an Adult World
Models of Navigation and Life Management
The Emergence of 'Emerging Adulthood': The New Life Stage between Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Divisions
Social Divisions and Inequalities
Social Class, Youth and Young Adulthood in the context of a Shifting Global Economy
New Masculinities and Femininities: Gender Divisions in the new Economy
Young People, 'Race' and Ethnicity
Young People and Social Capital
Disability, Exclusion and Transition to Adulthood
Young Refugees
Education
Educational Contexts and Transitions
Educating for Late Modernity
Explaining Cross-national Differences in Education-work Transitions
Young People's Subjective Orientations to Education
Mass Higher Education
Vocationalism
Keeping Kids on Track to a Successful Adulthood: The Role of VET in Improving High School Outcomes
Employment and Unemployment
Employment and Unemployment in Late Modernity
Changing Experiences of Work
Youth Unemployment and Marginalisation
Precarious Work: Risk, Choice and Poverty Traps
NEETs, Freeters and Flexibility: Reflecting Precarious Situations in the New Labour Market
The Stratification of Youth Employment in Contemporary China
What makes a Young Entrepreneur?
Dependency and Family Relations
Dependence, Independence and Housing Transitions
Leaving the Parental Home in Young Adulthood
Young, Free and Single? The Rise of Independent Living
Intergenerational Support During the Transition to Adulthood
Early Childbearing in the New Era of Delayed Adulthood
Homeless Youth and the Transition to Adulthood
Youth Culture and Lifestyles
Young People, Culture and Lifestyles
Leisure Activities, Place and Identity
Young Adults and the Night-time Economy
Young People and Consumption
Spectacular Soundtracks: Youth and Music
Young People, Drugs and Alcohol Consumption
Spectacular Youth? Young People's Fashion and Style
The Experience of Youth in the Digital Youth
Civic Engagement and Disengagement
Civic and Political Engagement and Disengagement
Young People's Civic Engagement and Political Development
Young People, Politics and Citizenship
Youth and Trade Unionism
Re-Politici
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