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Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an
interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the
production and reproduction of different types of inequality across
a variety of social contexts. Inequalities are not static, easily
measurable, and essentially quantifiable circumstances of life.
They are processes which impact on individuals throughout the life
course, interacting with each other, accumulating, attenuating,
reproducing, or distorting themselves along the way. The chapters
in this handbook examine various types of inequality, such as
economic, gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities, and analyse how
these inequalities manifest themselves within different aspects of
society, including health, education, and the family, at multiple
levels and dimensions. The handbook also tackles the global
COVID-19 pandemic and its striking impact on the production and
intensification of inequalities. The interdisciplinary life course
approach utilised in this handbook combines quantitative and
qualitative methods to bridge the gap between theory and practice
and offer strategies and principles for identifying and tackling
issues of inequality. This book will be indispensable for students
and researchers as well as activists and policy makers interested
in understanding and eradicating the processes of production,
reproduction, and perpetuation of inequalities.
Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an
interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the
production and reproduction of different types of inequality across
a variety of social contexts. Inequalities are not static, easily
measurable, and essentially quantifiable circumstances of life.
They are processes which impact on individuals throughout the life
course, interacting with each other, accumulating, attenuating,
reproducing, or distorting themselves along the way. The chapters
in this handbook examine various types of inequality, such as
economic, gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities, and analyse how
these inequalities manifest themselves within different aspects of
society, including health, education, and the family, at multiple
levels and dimensions. The handbook also tackles the global
COVID-19 pandemic and its striking impact on the production and
intensification of inequalities. The interdisciplinary life course
approach utilised in this handbook combines quantitative and
qualitative methods to bridge the gap between theory and practice
and offer strategies and principles for identifying and tackling
issues of inequality. This book will be indispensable for students
and researchers as well as activists and policy makers interested
in understanding and eradicating the processes of production,
reproduction, and perpetuation of inequalities.
This title was first published in 2002: Loosely divided into two
sections, this book's first part includes chapters which explore
young people's identities and youth cultures in relation to issues
such as drug use, education and dance music. In various ways, the
authors examine whether there is a need to rethink the existing
theories and concepts which have informed the study of youth
cultures and identities. The second part to the volume is concerned
with how young people experience "transtitions", in relation to
such topics as employment, sexuality, and household formation. The
chapters also raise theoretical questions on the usefulness of the
transition concept in late modernity, illustrating how the
reshaping of key institutions in late modernity has had a profound
effect on the sorts of transitions young people make today. In
addressing such issues the authors examine the potential
contribution that concepts around risk and risk society and new
Third Way social policy initiatives can have to contemporary youth
studies.
This title was first published in 2002: Loosely divided into two
sections, this book's first part includes chapters which explore
young people's identities and youth cultures in relation to issues
such as drug use, education and dance music. In various ways, the
authors examine whether there is a need to rethink the existing
theories and concepts which have informed the study of youth
cultures and identities. The second part to the volume is concerned
with how young people experience "transtitions", in relation to
such topics as employment, sexuality, and household formation. The
chapters also raise theoretical questions on the usefulness of the
transition concept in late modernity, illustrating how the
reshaping of key institutions in late modernity has had a profound
effect on the sorts of transitions young people make today. In
addressing such issues the authors examine the potential
contribution that concepts around risk and risk society and new
Third Way social policy initiatives can have to contemporary youth
studies.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is
critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by
indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life
today but also provide a window into the future for all of us. This
book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal
studies that respond to the United Nations' Agenda 2030 commitment
to "leave no-one behind". Contributors explore a wide range and
complexity of pressing global issues, with emphasis given to
excluded and vulnerable populations and gender inequality.
Importantly, it sets out actionable strategies for policymakers and
practitioners to help strengthen the global Sustainable Development
Goals framework, accelerate their implementation and improve the
construction of effective public policy.
This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European
research project mapping the civic and political engagement of
young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political
heritages. Drawing on new survey, interview and ethnographic data,
the authors discuss substantive issues relating to young people's
attitudes and activism including: attitudes to the European Union
and to history; understanding of political ideologies; how
attitudes to democracy are shaped by political heritage; activism
in radical right wing groups and religion-based organisations; and
digital activism. These contributions make the book's case that
transnational and multi-method projects can enrich our
understanding of how young people envisage their place and role in
Europe's political and civic space. The book challenges
methodological assumptions that survey research shows the big
picture but at the cost of local nuance or that qualitative
research cannot speak beyond the individual case, and demonstrates
the added explanatory value of triangulating different kinds of
data. Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe will be of
interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines,
including Sociology, Political Sociology, Youth Studies and
Political and Civic Participation.
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