Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I. Reconceptualizing youth and young adulthood. Youth
transitions in an age of uncertainty / Walter R. Heinz --
Socio-economic reproduction / Ken Roberts -- Youth and generation: in
the midst of an adult world / John Goodwin and Henrietta O'Connor --
Models of navigation and life management / Manuela du Bois-Reymond --
The emergence of 'emerging adulthood': the new life stage between
adolescence and young adulthood / Jennifer Lynn Tanner and Jeffrey
Jensen Arnett -- Part II. Divisions. Social class, youth and young
adulthood in the context of a shifting global economy / Lois Weis --
New masculinities and femininities: gender divisions in the new
economy / Linda McDowell -- Young people, 'race' and ethnicity /
Colin Webster -- Young people and social capital / Cherylynn Bassani
-- Disability, exclusion and transition to adulthood / Sheila Riddell
-- Young refugees / Elizabeth Heger Boyle -- Part III. Education.
Educating for late modernity / Johanna Wyn -- Explaining
cross-national differences in education-to-work transitions / David
Raffe -- Young people's subjective orientations to education / Andy
Biggart -- Mass higher education / Andy Furlong and Fred Cartmel --
Vocationalism / David B. Bills -- Keeping kids on track to a
successful adulthood: the role of VET in improving high school
outcomes / James R. Stone III --

Part IV: Employment and unemployment. Changing experiences of work /
Jeylan T. Mortimer -- Youth unemployment and marginalization / Illse
Julkunen -- Precarious work: risk, choice and poverty traps / Robert
MacDonald -- NEETs, freeters and flexibility: reflecting precarious
situations in the new labour market / Akio Inui -- The stratification
of youth employment in contemporary China / Jieyu Liu -- What makes a
young entrepreneur? / David C. Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald -- Part
V: Dependency and family relations. Leaving the parental home in
young adulthood / Clara H. Mulder -- Young, free and single? The rise
of independent living / Sue Heath -- Intergenerational support during
the transition to adulthood / Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Kirsten
Bengtson O'Brien -- Early childbearing in the new era of delayed
adulthood / Frank Furstenberg Jr -- Homeless youth and the transition
to adulthood / Bill McCarthy, Monica Williams and John Hagan -- Part
VI: Youth, culture and lifestyles. Leisure activities, place and
identity / Joan Abbott-Chapman and Margaret Robertson -- Young adults
and the night-time economy / Robert G. Hollands -- Young people and
consumption / Amy L. Best -- Spectacular soundtracks: youth and music
/ Andy Bennett -- Young people, drugs and alcohol consumption / Shane
Blackman -- Spectacular youth? Young people's fashion and style /
Paul Hodkinson -- The experience of youth in the digital age /
Philippa Collin and Jane Burns --

Part VII: Civic engagement and disengagement. Young people's civic
engagement and political development / Constance Flanagan -- Young
people, politics and citizenship / Anita Harris -- Youth and trade
unionism / Jan Carle -- 'Riots' or 'urban disorders'? The case for
re-politicizing urban disorders / Sadiya Akram -- Young people and
armed conflict / Colette Daiute -- Part VIII: Physical and mental
health. Health in youth: changing times and changing influences /
Patrick West -- HIV and AIDS, STIs and sexual health among young
people / Frederick Mugisha -- Progress, culture and young people's
wellbeing / Richard Eckersley -- Health-related behaviours in context
/ Patrick West -- Part IX: Identities, values and beliefs.
Youth-identity studies: history, controversies and future directions
/ James E. Côte' -- Values and related beliefs / Monica Kirkpatrick
Johnson and Maria Monserud -- The influence of aspirations on
educational and occupational outcomes / Nathan Jones and Barbara
Schneider -- Generation Y, flexible capitalism and new work ethics /
Peter Kelly -- Understanding the sexual lives of young people / Janet
Holland -- Religiosity in the lives of youth / Lisa D. Pearce and
Melinda Lundquist Denton -- Part X: Crime and deviance. Juvenile
delinquency and desistance / Shelly Schaefer and Christopher Uggen --
Young people and anti-social behaviour / Alan France -- Youth in a
world of gangs / John M. Hagedorn -- Young people, crime and justice
/ Rob White -- Youth and punishment / Angela Harvey and Aaron
Kupchik.

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Dewey Class: 305.235 -- Social groups
LCC Number: HQ796

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Language: eng
Physical Description: xvi, 475 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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