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In this book leading sociologists explore how in our digital age of
connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity
impact personal experience, relations between generations and
institutional processes. The authors analyse the entanglement
between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the
future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on
forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and future
studies into a unique dialogue, they highlight the crucial role of
the past elaboration processes in freeing the future from the
weight of trauma and renewing the ability to hope. Offering a
sophisticated and innovative social theory in a burgeoning field,
this is a much-needed intervention to the current ‘temporal
crisis’ of social life and sociological debates.
A New Youth? provides a cross-cultural perspective on the
challenges and problems posed by young people's transition to
adulthood. The authors address questions such as: What are the
experiences of being young in different European countries? What
can we learn about the differences of being young in non-European
countries? Are young people developing new attitudes towards
society? What are the risks associated with the transition of youth
to adulthood? Can we identify new attitudes about citizenship? On a
more general level, are there experiences and new social meanings
associated with youth? The volume is comparative between various
European and non-European countries in order to identify the
emerging models of transition. These characteristics are connected
with broader social, political and cultural changes: changes
related to extended education, increasing women's participation in
the labour market, changing welfare regimes, as well as changes in
political regimes and in the representation and construction of
individual identities and biographies, towards an increasing
individualization. The work offers critical reflections in the
realm of sociology of youth by providing broader understandings of
the term 'youth'. The detailed analysis of new forms of marginality
and social exclusion among young people offers valuable insight for
policy development and political debate.
A New Youth? provides a cross-cultural perspective on the
challenges and problems posed by young people's transition to
adulthood. The authors address questions such as: What are the
experiences of being young in different European countries? What
can we learn about the differences of being young in non-European
countries? Are young people developing new attitudes towards
society? What are the risks associated with the transition of youth
to adulthood? Can we identify new attitudes about citizenship? On a
more general level, are there experiences and new social meanings
associated with youth? The volume is comparative between various
European and non-European countries in order to identify the
emerging models of transition. These characteristics are connected
with broader social, political and cultural changes: changes
related to extended education, increasing women's participation in
the labour market, changing welfare regimes, as well as changes in
political regimes and in the representation and construction of
individual identities and biographies, towards an increasing
individualization. The work offers critical reflections in the
realm of sociology of youth by providing broader understandings of
the term 'youth'. The detailed analysis of new forms of marginality
and social exclusion among young people offers valuable insight for
policy development and political debate.
This book investigates the life trajectories of Generation X and Y
Australians through the 1990s and 2000s. The book defies popular
characterizations of members of the 'precarious generations' as
greedy, narcissistic and self-obsessed, revealing instead that many
of the members of these generations struggle to reach the standard
of living enjoyed by their parents, value learning highly and are
increasingly concerned about the environment and the legacy current
generations are leaving for their children and remain optimistic in
the face of considerable challenges. Drawing on data from the Life
Patterns longitudinal study of Australian youth (an internationally
recognized study), the book tells the story of members of these
'precarious generations'. It examines significant dimensions of
young people's lives across time, comparing how domains such as
health and well-being, education, work and relationships intersect
to produce the complex outcomes that characterize the lives of
members of each of these generations. It also explores the
strategies these generations use to make their lives and the ways
in which they remain resilient. While the book is based on
Australian data, the analysis draws on and contributes to the
international literature on young people and social change.
This book investigates the life trajectories of Generation X and Y
Australians through the 1990s and 2000s. The book defies popular
characterizations of members of the 'precarious generations' as
greedy, narcissistic and self-obsessed, revealing instead that many
of the members of these generations struggle to reach the standard
of living enjoyed by their parents, value learning highly and are
increasingly concerned about the environment and the legacy current
generations are leaving for their children and remain optimistic in
the face of considerable challenges. Drawing on data from the Life
Patterns longitudinal study of Australian youth (an internationally
recognized study), the book tells the story of members of these
'precarious generations'. It examines significant dimensions of
young people's lives across time, comparing how domains such as
health and well-being, education, work and relationships intersect
to produce the complex outcomes that characterize the lives of
members of each of these generations. It also explores the
strategies these generations use to make their lives and the ways
in which they remain resilient. While the book is based on
Australian data, the analysis draws on and contributes to the
international literature on young people and social change.
This collection of essays, based on this seminar, examines the
circumstances of young people in eastern Europe before and after
1989 from a variety of angles: their transition to adulthood; their
living conditions; the scope they have for social participation;
the way in which they construct their identities and constitute and
represent current social realities; their cultures and genders; and
the interplay of continuities and discontinuities around this
historic watershed.
This book, which pays particularly close attention to the
relationship between research, policy and practice, is an
invaluable tool for anyone wishing to achieve a deeper
understanding of young people in Eastern Europe today.
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