The parameters within which young people live their lives have
changed radically. In particular, rapid and dizzying changes to
education systems and labour markets around the world have
dramatically increased the complexity of the so-called youth phase
.
While youth and young adulthood have developed and cohered into
critical concepts in contemporary social and cultural analysis, the
daunting quantity (and variable quality) of the available research
exploring the many, often controversial, issues that the concepts
throw up makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the
tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new
four-volume collection in the highly regarded Routledge series,
Critical Concepts in Sociology, is so timely. It answers the urgent
need for a wide-ranging 'mini library' to provide easy access to
the key items of scholarly literature, material that is often
inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist
journals and books.
"
Youth and Young Adulthood" is supplemented with a full index,
and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the
editor, which places the collected material in its historical and
intellectual context. It is destined to be valued by scholars and
students, and researchers as a vital resource.
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Andy Furlong, the lead editor of this collection, is Professor
of Sociology in the Department of Educational Studies at the
University of Glasgow. He edits the "Journal of Youth Studies" and
is an adviser to the Japanese Youth Cohort Survey team.
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