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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > General

Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Yvette Taylor Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Yvette Taylor
R1,493 Discovery Miles 14 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth charts young people's understanding of religion, investigating the experiences, choices and identities of queer - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender - youth involved in inclusive churches. Rather than assume that sexuality and religion, and in this case Christianity, are separate and divergent paths, this book explores how they might mutually and complexly construct one another in times of religious-sexual citizenship. Taylor presents a methodological discussion on the 'public sociology' of religion and sexuality studies, and provides an illustrative focus on substantive fields often separated in disciplinary dis-orientations. These examples illustrate how participation shapes identifications; how marginalization and discrimination are managed; and how religion and sexuality serve as vehicles for various forms of belonging, identification and expression. 'Religion' and 'sexuality' are mutually constructed through gendered spaces, online spaces, and sensory spaces.

Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict (Hardcover): Jennie Bristow Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict (Hardcover)
Jennie Bristow
R2,212 Discovery Miles 22 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves. Bristow provides a critical account of this discourse by locating the problematisation of the Baby Boomers within a wider ambivalence about the legacy of the Sixties.

Young Workers and Trade Unions - A Global View (Hardcover): A. Hodder, L. Kretsos Young Workers and Trade Unions - A Global View (Hardcover)
A. Hodder, L. Kretsos
R3,588 Discovery Miles 35 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an understanding of the processes in which unions engage with young people, and views and opinions young people hold relating to collective representation. It features a selection of specific national cases of high relevance to contemporary debates of precariousness, trade union revitalization strategies and austerity policies.

Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): Jennie Bristow Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Jennie Bristow
R1,485 Discovery Miles 14 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves. Bristow provides a critical account of this discourse by locating the problematisation of the Baby Boomers within a wider ambivalence about the legacy of the Sixties.

Youths Trapped in Prejudice - Hungarian Adolescents' Attitudes towards the Roma (Paperback, 2014 ed.): Luca Varadi Youths Trapped in Prejudice - Hungarian Adolescents' Attitudes towards the Roma (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Luca Varadi
R2,244 Discovery Miles 22 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Luca Varadi aims to understand the formation of the Hungarian teenagers' attitudes towards the Roma, as adolescence is a crucial period in identity development. Her objective is to determine to what extent the classical and more recent theories on the formation of prejudice can be applied in a context in which there is no public consensus of respect towards minorities. The author lets the teenagers express their own views to see their world through their eyes, allowing the reader to understand what being prejudiced or tolerant means to these adolescents."

Child Street Life - An Inside View of Hazards and Expectations of Street Children in Peru (Paperback, 2015 ed.): G.K. Lieten,... Child Street Life - An Inside View of Hazards and Expectations of Street Children in Peru (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
G.K. Lieten, Talinay Strehl
R1,671 Discovery Miles 16 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. It looks at some of the conceptual issues and, after analysing why children are in the street and what behaviour and which aspirations they exhibit, deals with the policy issues and lessons to be learned. This brief investigates when and why the transition from children on the street (street-working children) to children of the street (street living children) takes place and elucidates how they survive. It explains the fluidity and the risks involved in any type of child street life.

Transnational Childhoods - British Bangladeshis, Identities and Social Change (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): B. Zeitlyn Transnational Childhoods - British Bangladeshis, Identities and Social Change (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
B. Zeitlyn
R1,961 Discovery Miles 19 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London. Exploring the array of international events, communities and forces which influence them, Zeitlyn examines the socialisation practices among British Bangladeshi families and how this shapes their childhood and identities.

Enhancing Children's Rights - Connecting Research, Policy and Practice (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): A. Smith Enhancing Children's Rights - Connecting Research, Policy and Practice (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
A. Smith
R1,523 Discovery Miles 15 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights. The book examines the impact children's rights and Childhood Studies has had on how children are constructed and regulated internationally.

Childhood and Disability in the Nordic Countries - Being, Becoming, Belonging (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): R. Traustadottir, B.... Childhood and Disability in the Nordic Countries - Being, Becoming, Belonging (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
R. Traustadottir, B. Ytterhus, S. Egilson, B. Berg
R3,383 Discovery Miles 33 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection provides a comprehensive insight into disabled children and youth in Nordic countries. It seeks to understand the experiences of children from their own perspectives and takes a multidisciplinary approach grounded in the new social studies of childhood and the Nordic relational approach to disability.

Rethinking Youth Wellbeing - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Katie Wright, Julie McLeod Rethinking Youth Wellbeing - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Katie Wright, Julie McLeod
R3,785 Discovery Miles 37 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing a range of school programs and social interventions and increasingly shaping everyday understandings of young people. Drawing on research by established and emerging scholars in Australia, Singapore and the UK, the book critically examines the myriad effects of dominant discourses of wellbeing on the one hand, and the social and cultural dimensions of wellbeing on the other. From diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives, it explores how notions of wellbeing have been mobilized across time and space, in and out of school contexts, and the different inflections and effects of wellbeing discourses are having in education, transnationally and comparatively. The book offers researchers as well as practitioners new perspectives on current approaches to student wellbeing in schools and novel ways of thinking about the wellbeing of young people beyond educational settings.

Generations and Work (Hardcover): E. Bolland, C. Lopez, Carlos Lopes Generations and Work (Hardcover)
E. Bolland, C. Lopez, Carlos Lopes
R3,731 Discovery Miles 37 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers to the most common issues and problems of multi generational work by assessing differences and commonalities between and among generations.

The Government of Childhood - Discourse, Power and Subjectivity (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): K Smith The Government of Childhood - Discourse, Power and Subjectivity (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
K Smith
R2,131 Discovery Miles 21 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present. The book deals with three key time-periods and examines shifts in the conceptualization and regulation of childhood and child-rearing.

Transitions to Adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa - Young Women's Rising? (Hardcover): M. Gebel, S. Heyne Transitions to Adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa - Young Women's Rising? (Hardcover)
M. Gebel, S. Heyne
R2,324 Discovery Miles 23 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. Adopting a life course perspective, it provides a new integrative micro-macro-theoretical framework and innovative analyses of individual life courses based on longitudinal data.

Understanding Families Over Time - Research and Policy (Hardcover): J. Holland Understanding Families Over Time - Research and Policy (Hardcover)
J. Holland; Rosalind Edwards
R2,222 Discovery Miles 22 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on research from the Timescapes Study, this volume discusses the life chances and experiences of children and young people, parents and older generations. A unique qualitative longitudinal study forms the basis for the chapter contributions, delivering policy-relevant findings to address individual and family lives over time.

World youth report 2013 - youth and migration (Paperback): United Nations.Department of Economic and Social Affairs World youth report 2013 - youth and migration (Paperback)
United Nations.Department of Economic and Social Affairs
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The World Youth Report 2013 focuses on the topic of youth and migration. It delivers a synopsis of the basic facts on youth migration and development discussing who is migrating, where they are coming from, where they are going to and why. The Report looks at the entire process involved in migration including the planning and preparations and the drivers behind the decisions that young people make. It examines the impact migration has on young people - those on the move as well as those who have been left behind - their experiences in transit and the lives of migrants in their destination countries and the challenges they face. First-hand experiences of youth are woven into the Report, adding another dimension to the material covered.

Education, Work and Social Change - Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain (Paperback): R. Simmons, R.... Education, Work and Social Change - Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain (Paperback)
R. Simmons, R. Thompson, L. Russell
R2,131 Discovery Miles 21 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of participation and non-participation on the margins of education and employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research.

Education, Work and Social Change - Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain (Hardcover): R. Simmons, R.... Education, Work and Social Change - Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain (Hardcover)
R. Simmons, R. Thompson, L. Russell
R2,334 Discovery Miles 23 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of participation and non-participation on the margins of education and employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research.

Entertaining Children - The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): G. Arrighi, V.... Entertaining Children - The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
G. Arrighi, V. Emeljanow
R1,960 R1,666 Discovery Miles 16 660 Save R294 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.

Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential - Learning from across Countries (Paperback,... Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential - Learning from across Countries (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
E.K.M. Tisdall, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler
R3,467 Discovery Miles 34 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.

Children and Borders (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): S. Spyrou, M. Christou Children and Borders (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
S. Spyrou, M. Christou
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders.

Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): K. Daly Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
K. Daly
R3,628 Discovery Miles 36 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the Christine M. Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Historical abuse of children is a worldwide phenomenon. This book assesses the enablers of abuse and the reasons it took so long for officials to respond. It analyzes redress for institutional abuse in two countries, Canada and Australia, using first-hand accounts of survivors' experiences.

Classrooms and Clinics - Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930 (Hardcover, New): Richard A.... Classrooms and Clinics - Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930 (Hardcover, New)
Richard A. Meckel
R4,317 Discovery Miles 43 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers to utilize urban schools to deliver health care services to socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved children in the primary grades. Their goal, Meckel shows, was to improve the children's health and thereby improve their academic performance. Meckel situates these efforts within a larger late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public discourse relating schools and schooling, especially in cities and towns, to child health. He describes and explains how that discourse and the school hygiene movement it inspired served as critical sites for the constructive negotiation of the nature and extent of the public school's-and by extension the state's-responsibility for protecting and promoting the physical and mental health of the children for whom it was providing a compulsory education. Tracing the evolution of that negotiation through four overlapping stages, Meckel shows how, why, and by whom the health of schoolchildren was discursively constructed as a sociomedical problem and charts and explains the changes that construction underwent over time. He also connects the changes in problem construction to the design and implementation of various interventions and services and evaluates how that design and implementation were affected by the response of the civic, parental, professional, educational, public health, and social welfare groups that considered themselves stakeholders and took part in the discourse. And, most significantly, he examines the responses called forth by the question at the heart of the negotiations: what services are necessitated by the state's and school's taking responsibility for protecting and promoting the health and physical and mental development of schoolchildren. He concludes that the negotiations resulted both in the partial medicalization of American primary education and in the articulation and adoption of a school health policy that accepted the school's responsibility for protecting and promoting the health of its students while largely limiting the services called for to the preventive and educational.

An Integrated Systems Model for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse - Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean (Paperback,... An Integrated Systems Model for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse - Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
A. Jones, E. Jemmott, P. Maharaj, H. Breo
R1,502 Discovery Miles 15 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book sets out an integrated systems model which utilizes a public health approach and 'whole of society' philosophy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. It guides those engaged in policy, practice and planning concerning gender based violence and child abuse towards a more systemic approach to tackling these problems.

Children, Rights and Modernity in China - Raising Self-Governing Citizens (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): O. Naftali Children, Rights and Modernity in China - Raising Self-Governing Citizens (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
O. Naftali
R1,476 Discovery Miles 14 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and participant observations conducted in schools and homes in Shanghai, China.

Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts - Research and Practice in Dialogue (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): K. Wells, E.... Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts - Research and Practice in Dialogue (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
K. Wells, E. Burman, H. Montgomery, A. Watson
R1,483 Discovery Miles 14 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences. The contributing authors seek to understand how violence is enacted against children in infancy, adolescence, in school, in care, at home and on the street.

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