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In recent years, civic and political institutions have stepped up
their efforts to encourage youth participation: schools promote
volunteerism, non-profits provide opportunities for service, local
governments create youth councils, and social movement
organizations discuss the need to encourage a new generation of
activists. This volume adopts a critical approach to the civic and
political socialization projects which aim to transform children
and youth into upstanding citizens. By synthesizing the study of
young people's civic and political socialization under the rubric
of "Youth Engagement", the interplay of the civic and the political
throughout young people's lives is considered. Chapters critically
examine the multiple and contested meanings of ideal citizenship
and reveal how children and youth craft active citizenship as they
encounter and respond to the various institutions and organizations
designed to encourage their civic and political development.
Coming from a range of methodological and theoretical orientations,
this volume showcases the lives of children and the policies that
shape children's lives on five continents. Across these research
articles, it becomes clear that we cannot continue to assume a
certain meaning of childhood, because this concept is bound by both
cultural and structural factors. Cultural expectations influence
how societies view children and how children view themselves. A
handful of these studies show how immigrant children and youth
provide particularly interesting insight as they navigate more than
one cultural context. Structural factors also become salient, as
children come from unequal backgrounds, different levels of
economic development, and face varying political concerns. While
these papers come from different doorsteps of the world, cultural
and structural threads of continuity connect them as meaningful for
children. This volume illustrates how international childhood
researchers can use current concepts and theories into unlikely
contexts exposing their limitations and helping to inform more
versatile and robust lines of thinking for children and youth
studies.
This volume is comprised of empirical research and theoretical
papers within three key areas, namely children's well being,
children and youth peer cultures, and the rights of children and
youth. These empirical studies include children's voices and
experiences from four continents (Asia, Europe, North America and
South America) and a range of methodological and theoretical
orientations. A clear connection to social policy at a national and
international level is made in many of these studies. Topics are
wide-ranging and include: Praetorian militarization; school
mobility; math and reading achievement gaps; dating and the
developmental discourse in a summer camp; and, school and social
exclusion for urban young people. Altogether, these studies
highlight how structure and culture both limit and enable the life
chances of children, how children interpret and construct their
social relations and environments, and how children view themselves
as well as how others view the rights of children. This volume is a
further example of how the "Sociological Studies of Children and
Youth" series successfully showcases major strands of current
thinking on children and youth in our world today.
In recent years, civic and political institutions have stepped up
their efforts to encourage youth participation: schools promote
volunteerism, non-profits provide opportunities for service, local
governments create youth councils, and social movement
organizations discuss the need to encourage a new generation of
activists. This volume adopts a critical approach to the civic and
political socialization projects which aim to transform children
and youth into upstanding citizens. By synthesizing the study of
young people's civic and political socialization under the rubric
of "Youth Engagement", the interplay of the civic and the political
throughout young people's lives is considered. Chapters critically
examine the multiple and contested meanings of ideal citizenship
and reveal how children and youth craft active citizenship as they
encounter and respond to the various institutions and organizations
designed to encourage their civic and political development.
This volume is comprised of empirical research and theoretical
papers within three key areas, namely children's well being,
children and youth peer cultures, and the rights of children and
youth. These empirical studies include children's voices and
experiences from four continents (Asia, Europe, North America and
South America) and a range of methodological and theoretical
orientations. A clear connection to social policy at a national and
international level is made in many of these studies. Topics are
wide-ranging and include: Praetorian militarization; school
mobility; math and reading achievement gaps; dating and the
developmental discourse in a summer camp; and, school and social
exclusion for urban young people. Altogether, these studies
highlight how structure and culture both limit and enable the life
chances of children, how children interpret and construct their
social relations and environments, and how children view themselves
as well as how others view the rights of children. This volume is a
further example of how the "Sociological Studies of Children and
Youth" series successfully showcases major strands of current
thinking on children and youth in our world today.
This International Volume of Sociological Studies of Children and
Youth shows the breadth of current empirical research that focuses
on children and youth around the world. Coming from a range of
methodological and theoretical orientations, this volume showcases
the lives of children and the policies that shape children's lives
on five continents. Across these research articles, it becomes
clear that we cannot continue to assume a certain meaning of
childhood, because this concept is bound by both cultural and
structural factors. Cultural expectations influence how societies
view children and how children view themselves. A handful of these
studies show how immigrant children and youth provide particularly
interesting insight as they navigate more than one cultural
context. Structural factors also become salient, as children come
from unequal backgrounds, different levels of economic development,
and face varying political concerns. While these papers come from
different doorsteps of the world, cultural and structural threads
of continuity connect them as meaningful for children. This volume
illustrates how international childhood researchers can use current
concepts and theories into unlikely contexts exposing their
limitations and helping to inform more versatile and robust lines
of thinking for children and youth studies.
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