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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This Advanced Introduction to Youth Studies analyses the
historical development of the sociology of youth in the context of
changing population demographics. Howard Williamson and James Cote
explore competing paradigms underlying current understandings of
youth with reference to key philosophical, theoretical and
methodological debates. Young people's transitions to adulthood and
youth cultural behaviour are then explored. The authors conclude
with a consideration of youth policies and how, in the future,
these may be better informed by sociological research. Key
Features: Fact-based analysis of key debates Sociological
perspectives informed by multidisciplinary analyses Concise
coverage of complex topics Policy recommendations informed by years
of experience in the field This Advanced Introduction will provide
essential reading for scholars and researchers of sociology and
sociological theory, as well as youth workers and students looking
for an excellent introduction to youth studies.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This Advanced Introduction to Youth Studies analyses the
historical development of the sociology of youth in the context of
changing population demographics. Howard Williamson and James Cote
explore competing paradigms underlying current understandings of
youth with reference to key philosophical, theoretical and
methodological debates. Young people's transitions to adulthood and
youth cultural behaviour are then explored. The authors conclude
with a consideration of youth policies and how, in the future,
these may be better informed by sociological research. Key
Features: Fact-based analysis of key debates Sociological
perspectives informed by multidisciplinary analyses Concise
coverage of complex topics Policy recommendations informed by years
of experience in the field This Advanced Introduction will provide
essential reading for scholars and researchers of sociology and
sociological theory, as well as youth workers and students looking
for an excellent introduction to youth studies.
The Milltown Boys at Sixty is a story like no other, giving both an
insider and an outsider view of the 'Milltown Boys', exploring the
nature of an ethnographic relationship based on research about
their experiences of the criminal justice system. A group
classically labelled as delinquents, drug-takers and drop-outs, the
Boys were also, in many different ways, fathers, friends and family
men, differentially immersed in the labour market, in very
different family relationships and now very differently connected
to criminal activity. Williamson has written books capturing their
experiences over the fifty years of his continued association with
them: about their teenage years; and twenty years later, in
middle-age. This book is about them as they pass the age of 60,
providing a personal account of the relationship between Williamson
and the Boys, and the distinctive - perhaps even controversial -
research methodology that enabled the mapping of their lives. It
provides a unique and detailed insight into the ways in which the
lives of the Milltown Boys that started with such shared beginnings
have unfolded in so many diverse and fascinating ways. These
accounts will be of interest to the lay reader curious about the
way others have managed (or failed to manage) their lives, the
professional who works with those living, often struggling, on the
wrong side of the tracks, and the academic researching and teaching
about social exclusion, substance misuse, criminal justice
transitions and the life course.
The Milltown Boys at Sixty is a story like no other, giving both an
insider and an outsider view of the 'Milltown Boys', exploring the
nature of an ethnographic relationship based on research about
their experiences of the criminal justice system. A group
classically labelled as delinquents, drug-takers and drop-outs, the
Boys were also, in many different ways, fathers, friends and family
men, differentially immersed in the labour market, in very
different family relationships and now very differently connected
to criminal activity. Williamson has written books capturing their
experiences over the fifty years of his continued association with
them: about their teenage years; and twenty years later, in
middle-age. This book is about them as they pass the age of 60,
providing a personal account of the relationship between Williamson
and the Boys, and the distinctive - perhaps even controversial -
research methodology that enabled the mapping of their lives. It
provides a unique and detailed insight into the ways in which the
lives of the Milltown Boys that started with such shared beginnings
have unfolded in so many diverse and fascinating ways. These
accounts will be of interest to the lay reader curious about the
way others have managed (or failed to manage) their lives, the
professional who works with those living, often struggling, on the
wrong side of the tracks, and the academic researching and teaching
about social exclusion, substance misuse, criminal justice
transitions and the life course.
First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though
not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified
young men on the margins. These young men, whose cultures of
machismo, manualism and anti-mentalism previously served to prepare
them for the manual labour market, are increasingly the careerless,
the jobless and the folk-devils of the modern, post-industrial
society. In research, they have received considerable attention,
though more for their capacity to be spectacular, deviant and
bizarre than through the deep anxieties and despondency about the
future experienced by many. Howard Williamson contends that the
development of effective youth policy depends essentially upon a
synthesis of political priorities, professional agendas and young
people's perspectives and responses. While not quite an
'underclass', many suffer from a 'tangle of pathologies' which
obstructs the possibility of them finding a way back into
mainstream economic, housing and relationship transitions.
First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though
not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified
young men on the margins. These young men, whose cultures of
machismo, manualism and anti-mentalism previously served to prepare
them for the manual labour market, are increasingly the careerless,
the jobless and the folk-devils of the modern, post-industrial
society. In research, they have received considerable attention,
though more for their capacity to be spectacular, deviant and
bizarre than through the deep anxieties and despondency about the
future experienced by many. Howard Williamson contends that the
development of effective youth policy depends essentially upon a
synthesis of political priorities, professional agendas and young
people's perspectives and responses. While not quite an
'underclass', many suffer from a 'tangle of pathologies' which
obstructs the possibility of them finding a way back into
mainstream economic, housing and relationship transitions.
Howard Williamson's 'Five Years' was a ground-breaking study of
youth, poverty and crime in the 1970s. At its close, the boys he
interviewed were left with few prospects and bleak futures.
Twenty-five years later, Williamson returns to find out the sort of
men these boys have become and narrates their stories in this
extraordinary book.Of the original group of sixty-seven boys, seven
are dead -- not one of natural causes. Williamson tracked down half
of those remaining. Here they tell of their personal, family and
social relationships, legal and illegal work, their experiences of
the criminal justice system, and money. Contrary to what one might
expect, their lives are startlingly diverse.The Milltown Boys
Revisited is a riveting account of life on the edge during the
Thatcher and Blair governments. It tells stories of dignity, human
betterment and escape, of fatalism on the margins of criminal and
drug cultures, and also of getting by in difficult circumstances.
It is as much a celebration of individual resilience as an account
of risk and vulnerability in the lives of the dispossessed.
Howard Williamson's 'Five Years' was a ground-breaking study of
youth, poverty and crime in the 1970s. At its close, the boys he
interviewed were left with few prospects and bleak futures.
Twenty-five years later, Williamson returns to find out the sort of
men these boys have become and narrates their stories in this
extraordinary book.Of the original group of sixty-seven boys, seven
are dead -- not one of natural causes. Williamson tracked down half
of those remaining. Here they tell of their personal, family and
social relationships, legal and illegal work, their experiences of
the criminal justice system, and money. Contrary to what one might
expect, their lives are startlingly diverse.The Milltown Boys
Revisited is a riveting account of life on the edge during the
Thatcher and Blair governments. It tells stories of dignity, human
betterment and escape, of fatalism on the margins of criminal and
drug cultures, and also of getting by in difficult circumstances.
It is as much a celebration of individual resilience as an account
of risk and vulnerability in the lives of the dispossessed.
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