This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent "practice turn" in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are "done." This book introduces the concept of "doing transitions" and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on "doing transitions" in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration). It also emphasizes themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (such as bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. In coupling this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors and practitioners, and policymakers.

This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems, opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In particular, it endeavours to transcend what its contributors feel is one of the most damaging trends of recent work on the question of youth, namely: the division between young people's transitions and youth culture. Building upon the notion of lifestyle as a means of bridging this gap, the book provides something original and timely: a way of linking young people's broader structural concerns with the cultural and community contexts within which they conduct their everyday lives. The data discussed in the book emanates from a comparative European Union project conducted in Great Britain, Germany and Portugal. The three training programmes examined are based on the performing arts, but the authors argue that the skills young people glean from these courses are more to do with generic skills such as the ability to work effectively in groups, mutual responsibility, discipline and above all, confidence, than the technical proficiencies of performance. These courses become an important part of the young people's lives and as such, provide a space within which they become themselves . In this sense, the book highlights the fact that far from being passive recipients of public policy, young people actively engage with the power structures that combine to shape their lives. Communities of Youth therefore considers the diversity of European youth and by tapping into this diversity it develops important recommendations that will inform academic debate, research and youth policy.

This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems, opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In particular, it endeavours to transcend what its contributors feel is one of the most damaging trends of recent work on the question of youth, namely: the division between young people's transitions and youth culture. Building upon the notion of lifestyle as a means of bridging this gap, the book provides something original and timely: a way of linking young people's broader structural concerns with the cultural and community contexts within which they conduct their everyday lives. The data discussed in the book emanates from a comparative European Union project conducted in Great Britain, Germany and Portugal. The three training programmes examined are based on the performing arts, but the authors argue that the skills young people glean from these courses are more to do with generic skills such as the ability to work effectively in groups, mutual responsibility, discipline and above all, confidence, than the technical proficiencies of performance. These courses become an important part of the young people's lives and as such, provide a space within which they become themselves . In this sense, the book highlights the fact that far from being passive recipients of public policy, young people actively engage with the power structures that combine to shape their lives. Communities of Youth therefore considers the diversity of European youth and by tapping into this diversity it develops important recommendations that will inform academic debate, research and youth policy.

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent "practice turn" in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are "done." This book introduces the concept of "doing transitions" and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on "doing transitions" in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration). It also emphasizes themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (such as bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. In coupling this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors and practitioners, and policymakers.

In dem Band werden neue Anforderungen in unterschiedlichen Handlungsfeldern beschrieben und diskutiert, die sich ganz grundsatzlich und zwangslaufig im Umgang mit Gefluchteten ergeben: Menschen mit traumatisierenden Erfahrungen benoetigen konkrete Hilfen, minderjahrige Gefluchtete mussen in Angeboten der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe aufgenommen werden, Rassismen, Stigmatisierungen und Diskriminierungen muss gerade von professioneller Seite reflektiert begegnet werden. Neben theoretischen Einordnungen zum Fluchtlingsdiskurs liefern die Beitrage Antworten auf aktuelle Fragen und entwickeln praxisrelevante Zugange zum Thema.

Vermitteln ist eine der Kernaufgaben der Sozialen Arbeit. In den Beitragen des Bandes erfolgt eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff des Vermittelns, seiner Reichweiten und Grenzen in den unterschiedlichen Handlungsfeldern. Dokumentiert werden nicht nur dessen Relevanz fur die Soziale Arbeit, sondern auch Kritik an der allzu einfachen Rede von der Vermittlung zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Angesichts des Beschleunigungsdrucks, unter den die Erfullung von Vermittlungserwartungen gerat, aber auch vor dem Hintergrund einer wachsenden Aufmerksamkeit fur den Eigensinn von Beteiligung der Adressaten, wird gefragt, in welcher Weise sich die Anspruche an Vermittlung verandert haben. Welche Rahmenbedingungen sind zu berucksichtigen? Wann werden die Potentiale des Vermittelns, z.B. durch sozialtechnologische UEberformungen, verzerrt?

Der Alkoholkonsum Jugendlicher ist seit Jahren allgegenwartiges Thema in Medien und Fachoeffentlichkeit. Zuschreibungen und Dramatisierung bestimmen bisher uberwiegend den Diskurs. Kaum werden jedoch die subjektiven und kollektiven Sinnstrukturen dieser riskanten jugendkulturellen Praxis und ihrer biografischen Bedeutung genauer untersucht. Diese Publikation stellt Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Langschnittstudie vor, mit umfassendem Hintergrundwissen zum Phanomen des Umgangs mit Alkohol im Jugendalter. Sie soll bewusst zu einer reflexiven Entdramatisierung der Debatte beitragen.

Wo entsprechen die Praktiken und Handlungslogiken von jungen Erwachsenen den gesellschaftlichen Tendenzen von Vermarktlichung und Beschleunigung? Wo zeigen sich in diesen Praktiken Divergenzen zu gesellschaftlichen Mainstreams, die auch als Widerstandsmomente gelesen werden koennen? Welche Bedeutung haben jugendkulturelle Zusammenhange - in diesem Fall: eine Hip-Hop-Crew - im Kontext solch potenziell transformatorischer sozialer Prozesse? Barbara Stauber geht es in dieser Fallstudie einer jungen Frau in der Hip-Hop-Szene um die Frage, wie gesellschaftliche Verunsicherung sowohl biographisch als auch kollektiv aufgefangen und bearbeitet wird.